All 5 Uses of
edifice
in
Notes from the Underground
- May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing?†
Chpt 1.9
- Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed, for the use of LES ANIMAUX DOMESTIQUES--such as the ants, the sheep, and so on.†
Chpt 1.9
- They have a marvellous edifice of that pattern which endures for ever--the ant-heap.†
Chpt 1.9
- And perhaps that is just why I am afraid of this edifice, that it is of crystal and can never be destroyed and that one cannot put one's tongue out at it even on the sly.†
Chpt 1.10
- Perhaps the thing I resented was, that of all your edifices there has not been one at which one could not put out one's tongue.†
Chpt 1.10 *
Definition:
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(edifice) a building or structure -- especially a large one
or:
a conceptual or organizational framework