Both Uses of
inquiry
in
The Death of Ivan Ilych
- He got up at nine, drank his coffee, read the paper, and then put on his undress uniform and went to the law courts. there the harness in which he worked had already been stretched to fit him and he donned it without a hitch: petitioners, inquiries at the chancery, the chancery itself, and the sittings public and administrative.†
Chpt 3
- He looked at her as he had done at his wife, and in reply to her inquiry about his health said dryly that he would soon free them all of himself.†
Chpt 11 *
Definition:
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(inquiry) the act of asking a question or performing an investigation