All 8 Uses of
perish
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- When I appeared on deck the master said, "Here is our captain, and he will not allow you to perish on the open sea."†
p. 26.5 *perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- It may therefore be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion, but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.†
p. 86.1
- You, my playfellow, my companion, my sister, perish on the scaffold!†
p. 88.9
- She perished on the scaffold as a murderess!†
p. 90.4perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- I only wonder that at that moment, instead of venting my sensations in exclamations and agony, I did not rush among mankind and perish in the attempt to destroy them.†
p. 145.3perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Has this mind, so replete with ideas, imaginations fanciful and magnificent, which formed a world, whose existence depended on the life of its creator;—has this mind perished?†
p. 161.9perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- I knelt on the grass and kissed the earth and with quivering lips exclaimed, "By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.†
p. 206.3perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward of my tedious toil and horrible pilgrimage!†
p. 208.9
Definition:
to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
You may encounter an informal expression, "Perish the thought." It means that the speaker hopes the thought will cease to exist and the thing it represents will never happen.