All 7 Uses of
gratification
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.†
p. 31.1
- You may easily imagine that I was much gratified by the offered communication, yet I could not endure that he should renew his grief by a recital of his misfortunes.†
p. 31.5gratified = gave or received what was desired; or pleased
- After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.†
p. 53.7 *gratifying = pleasurable
- My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight and a thousand sights of beauty.†
p. 119.2gratified = gave or received what was desired; or pleased
- At length I wandered towards these mountains, and have ranged through their immense recesses, consumed by a burning passion which you alone can gratify.†
p. 146.0gratify = give pleasure or satisfaction
- What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me.†
p. 148.5
- If these feelings had not found an imaginary gratification, the appearance of the city had yet in itself sufficient beauty to obtain our admiration.†
p. 165.3
Definition:
great satisfaction (pleasure)