All 3 Uses of
glut
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.†
p. 138.2 *
- If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.†
p. 102.6
- My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.†
p. 148.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(glut) an excess supply
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, glut can be used as a verb, as in "They glutted the market."