All 17 Uses of
desolate
in
Frankenstein
- I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight.
Chpt Intr. (definition 1) *desolation = emptiness that provides no shelter or sustenance
- One sudden and desolating change had taken place; but a thousand little circumstances might have by degrees worked other alterations, which, although they were done more tranquilly, might not be the less decisive.
Chpt 7 (definition 2)desolating = causing sadness or misery
- Before, I had only imagined the wretchedness of my desolated home; the reality came on me as a new, and a not less terrible, disaster.
Chpt 7 (definition 2)desolated = sad and miserable
- And my father's woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home all was the work of my thrice-accursed hands!
Chpt 8 (definition 3)desolation = destruction
- It is a scene terrifically desolate. In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground, some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the jutting rocks of the mountain or transversely upon other trees.
Chpt 10 (definition 3)desolate = destroyed
- It was dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate.
Chpt 11 (definition 2)desolate = miserable and alone
- The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery which insulted my desolate state and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.
Chpt 16 (definition 2)desolate = miserable
- If, therefore, I could seize him and educate him as my companion and friend, I should not be so desolate in this peopled earth.
Chpt 16 (definition 2)desolate = miserable and lonely
- I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.
Chpt 16 (definition 2)desolation = sadness and misery
- Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world.
Chpt 17 (definition 3)desolate = destroy or make miserable
- Have a care; I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth.
Chpt 17 (definition 2)desolate = destroy
- I thought of Switzerland; it was far different from this desolate and appalling landscape.
Chpt 19 (definition 1)desolate = miserable or barren (lacking what supports life)
- Three years before, I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it forever with the bitterest remorse.
Chpt 20 (definition 3)desolated = destroyed
- Know that, one by one, my friends were snatched away; I was left desolate.
Chpt 23 (definition 2) *desolate = miserable (sad and lonely)
- The cold is excessive, and many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of desolation.
Chpt 24 (definition 3)desolation = destruction
- It is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made.
Chpt 24 (definition 3) *
- Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
Chpt 24 (definition 2)desolation = sadness and misery
Definitions:
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(1) (desolate as in: a desolate place) empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
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(2) (desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely
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(3) (desolate as in: desolated the region) destroyed; or emptied of people; or emptied of most plants and animals