All 5 Uses of
vanquish
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- "Consider yourself, Grigory Vassilyevitch," Smerdyakov went on, staid and unruffled, conscious of his triumph, but, as it were, generous to the vanquished foe.†
Chpt 3 *vanquished = completely defeated
- He claims it as a merit for himself and his Church that at last they have vanquished freedom and have done so to make men happy.†
Chpt 5
- The Lord vanquished the devil in my heart.†
Chpt 6
- "Well, perhaps so," Kostya agreed, entirely vanquished.†
Chpt 10
- Katya never had made such confessions to Alyosha before, and he felt that she was now at that stage of unbearable suffering when even the proudest heart painfully crushes its pride and falls vanquished by grief.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
to defeat completely