All 4 Uses of
gratification
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The change was, in fact, violent, though a gratifying one.†
Chpt 1.2.6 *gratifying = pleasurable
- On the part of the audience there was the feeling of impatience gratified which one experiences at the theatre at the end of the last entr'acte of the comedy, when the curtain rises and the conclusion is about to begin.†
Chpt 2.8.3gratified = gave or received what was desired; or pleased
- He wept with rage as he pictured to himself how many impure looks had been gratified at the sight of that badly fastened shift, and that this beautiful girl, this virgin lily, this cup of modesty and delight, to which he would have dared to place his lips only trembling, had just been transformed into a sort of public bowl, whereat the vilest populace of Paris, thieves, beggars, lackeys, had come to quaff in common an audacious, impure, and depraved pleasure.†
Chpt 2.9.1
- Let us not rest our glance too long on our neighbor's wife, however gratified our senses may be by her beauty.†
Chpt 2.11.1
Definition:
great satisfaction (pleasure)