Both Uses of
hearsay
in
The Idiot
- The movement is, properly speaking, a derivative from Nihilism—though they are only known indirectly, and by hearsay, for they never advertise their doings in the papers.†
Chpt 2.7 *hearsay = heard through another rather than directly
- He had given up interfering in the affairs of his family for two years now, and knew nothing about them but what he gathered from hearsay.†
Chpt 4.3