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Definition
used for emphasis: to describe one thing as almost like another (more intense) thing
- The fetes are veritable pleasure days to the Italians.Chapters 35-36 (92% in)
- Albert, who was a great smoker, and who had considered it no small sacrifice to be deprived of the cigars of the Cafe de Paris, approached the table, and uttered a cry of joy at perceiving some veritable puros.Chapters 35-36 (24% in)
- He made his way along the corridors through force of habit; he threw aside his magisterial robe, not out of deference to etiquette, but because it was an unbearable burden, a veritable garb of Nessus, insatiate in torture.Chapters 111-112 (3% in)
There are no more uses of "veritable" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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