All 4 Uses of
perversion
in
Don Quixote
- And though it is plain they could not do without eating and performing all the other natural functions, because, in fact, they were men like ourselves, it is plain too that, wandering as they did the most part of their lives through woods and wilds and without a cook, their most usual fare would be rustic viands such as those thou now offer me; so that, friend Sancho, let not that distress thee which pleases me, and do not seek to make a new world or pervert knight-errantry.†
Chpt 1.9-10pervert = (noun) someone who likes sexual practices considered unacceptable by society OR (verb) to convert something so it is not what it should be
- Justice held her ground, undisturbed and unassailed by the efforts of favour and of interest, that now so much impair, pervert, and beset her.†
Chpt 1.11-12 *
- "Thou mayest well say that, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "as thou sawest her in the full perfection of her beauty; for the enchantment does not go so far as to pervert thy vision or hide her loveliness from thee; against me alone and against my eyes is the strength of its venom directed.†
Chpt 2.11-12
- But tell me, thou perverter of the squirely rules of knight-errantry, where hast thou ever seen or read that any knight-errant's squire made terms with his lord, 'you must give me so much a month for serving you'?†
Chpt 2.27-28perverter = someone who converts something so it is not what it should be
Definition:
the conversion of something so it is not what it should be -- especially a sexual practice considered unacceptable by society