All 20 Uses of
aberration
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Listen, what is an aberration?†
Chpt 11 *
- "What aberration?" asked Alyosha, wondering.†
Chpt 11
- An aberration in which everything is pardonable.†
Chpt 11
- I was talking of aberration.†
Chpt 11
- Well, you see, a man may be sitting perfectly sane and suddenly have an aberration.†
Chpt 11
- He may be conscious and know what he is doing and yet be in a state of aberration.†
Chpt 11
- And there's no doubt that Dmitri Fyodorovitch was suffering from aberration.†
Chpt 11
- They found out about aberration as soon as the law courts were reformed.†
Chpt 11
- He must have been in a state of aberration.†
Chpt 11
- Suffering from aberration.†
Chpt 11
- When he recovered from the blow Dmitri Fyodorovitch gave him on the head, he was suffering from aberration; he went and committed the murder.†
Chpt 11
- And, besides, who isn't suffering from aberration nowadays?†
Chpt 11
- —you, I, all of us are in a state of aberration, and there are ever so many examples of it: a man sits singing a song, suddenly something annoys him, he takes a pistol and shoots the first person he comes across, and no one blames him for it.†
Chpt 11
- Why, my Lise is in a state of aberration.†
Chpt 11
- She made me cry again yesterday, and the day before, too, and to-day I suddenly realized that it's all due to aberration.†
Chpt 11
- Then, next day another fit, and the same thing on the third, and yesterday too, and then yesterday that aberration.†
Chpt 11
- He talked at length and with erudition of "aberration" and "mania," and argued that, from all the facts collected, the prisoner had undoubtedly been in a condition of aberration for several days before his arrest, and, if the crime had been committed by him, it must, even if he were conscious of it, have been almost involuntary, as he had not the power to control the morbid impulse that possessed him.†
Chpt 12
- He talked at length and with erudition of "aberration" and "mania," and argued that, from all the facts collected, the prisoner had undoubtedly been in a condition of aberration for several days before his arrest, and, if the crime had been committed by him, it must, even if he were conscious of it, have been almost involuntary, as he had not the power to control the morbid impulse that possessed him.†
Chpt 12
- But apart from temporary aberration, the doctor diagnosed mania, which premised, in his words, to lead to complete insanity in the future.†
Chpt 12
- But this nervous condition would not involve the mental aberration of which mention had just been made.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(aberration) a state or condition that isn't normal