Both Uses of
asylum
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Miss Stephanie said old Mr. Radley said no Radley was going to any asylum, when it was suggested that a season in Tuscaloosa might be helpful to Boo.
p. 12.3 *asylum = a hospital for the mentally ill
- I pulled at his sleeve, and we were followed up the sidewalk by a philippic on our family's moral degeneration, the major premise of which was that half the Finches were in the asylum anyway, but if our mother were living we would not have come to such a state.
p. 117.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(asylum as in: she sought asylum in...) a shelter from danger or hardship
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(2)
(asylum as in: committed to the asylum) a hospital for the mentally ill