All 3 Uses of
relapse
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- By very slow degrees, and with frequent relapses that alarmed and grieved my friend, I recovered.†
p. 63.4 *relapses = returns to an undesirable previous condition
- More than once the agitation into which these reflections threw me made my friends dread a dangerous relapse.†
p. 186.0relapse = return to an undesirable previous condition
- I had already been three months in prison, and although I was still weak and in continual danger of a relapse, I was obliged to travel nearly a hundred miles to the country town where the court was held.†
p. 186.3
Definition:
to return to an undesirable previous condition -- especially illness, addiction, or bad behavior