Both Uses of
vertigo
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Edmond was seized with vertigo; he cocked his gun and laid it beside him.†
Chpt 23-24 *
- They saw, or rather continued to see, the image of what they had witnessed; but little by little the general vertigo seized them, and they felt themselves obliged to take part in the noise and confusion.†
Chpt 35-36
Definitions:
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(1)
(vertigo) a dizzy sensation or a feeling that you are about to fall
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
There is also a famous Alfred Hitchcock film named Vertigo.