All 3 Uses of
anguish
in
The Awakening
- An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish.†
Chpt 3 *
- It moved her to dreams, to thoughtfulness, to the shadowy anguish which had overcome her the midnight when she had abandoned herself to tears.†
Chpt 6
- She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle,—a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(anguish) extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)