All 3 Uses of
aloof
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- But the Church, like a tender, loving mother, holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already by the civil law, and there must be at least some one to have pity on him.†
Chpt 2 *
- The Church holds aloof, above all, because its judgment is the only one that contains the truth, and therefore cannot practically and morally be united to any other judgment even as a temporary compromise.†
Chpt 2
- All mankind in our age have split up into units, they all keep apart, each in his own groove; each one holds aloof, hides himself and hides what he has, from the rest, and he ends by being repelled by others and repelling them.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(aloof) socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others