All 3 Uses
pittance
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
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- She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.†
p. 34.5 *
- Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.†
p. 128.8
- As it was, I lived ungazed at and unmolested, hardly thanked for the pittance of food and clothes which I gave, so much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men.†
p. 168.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(pittance) an inadequate payment
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)