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Definition
great satisfaction (pleasure)
- To whom my sister, more for the relief of her own mind than for the gratification of his, related my pretended experiences.Chapter 9 (52% in)
- "Yes!" said I. And although my sister instantly boxed my ears, it was highly gratifying to me to see that the answer spoilt his joke, and brought him to a dead stop.Chapter 9 (23% in)
- "Much good they'll do me!" observed my sister; but rather gratified too.Chapter 13 (55% in)
- I know that these gratifying social ends were so invariably accomplished, that Herbert and I understood nothing else to be referred to in the first standing toast of the society: which ran "Gentlemen, may the present promotion of good feeling ever reign predominant among the Finches of the Grove."Chapter 34 (20% in)
- I saw in this, wretched though it made me, and bitter the sense of dependence and even of degradation that it awakened,—I saw in this that Estella was set to wreak Miss Havisham's revenge on men, and that she was not to be given to me until she had gratified it for a term.Chapter 38 (23% in)
- I had asked him the question inhospitably enough, for I resented the sort of bright and gratified recognition that still shone in his face.Chapter 39 (20% in)
- I was to be absent only one night, and, on my return, the gratification of his impatience for my starting as a gentleman on a greater scale was to be begun.Chapter 43 (28% in)
- When you first caused me to be brought here, Miss Havisham, when I belonged to the village over yonder, that I wish I had never left, I suppose I did really come here, as any other chance boy might have come,—as a kind of servant, to gratify a want or a whim, and to be paid for it?Chapter 44 (14% in)
- "Not necessary," said I. "—Had made some little stir in a certain part of the world where a good many people go, not always in gratification of their own inclinations, and not quite irrespective of the government expense—"Chapter 45 (43% in)
There are no more uses of "gratification" in Great Expectations.
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