All 3 Uses of
veritable
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- 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.†
Chpt 35-36veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
- The fetes are veritable pleasure days to the Italians.†
Chpt 35-36 *
- 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.†
Chpt 111-112
Definition:
used for emphasis: to describe one thing as almost like another (more intense) thing