All 6 Uses of
minion
in
Ivanhoe
- Methinks that I felt the presence of my brother's minion, even when I least guessed whom yonder suit of armour enclosed.†
Chpt 13minion = people considered to be unimportant servants or followers of someone considered important
- But dream not, that Richard Coeur de Lion will ever resume his throne, far less that Wilfred of Ivanhoe, his minion, will ever lead thee to his footstool, to be there welcomed as the bride of a favourite.†
Chpt 23 *
- "Thy life, minion?" answered the sibyl; "what would taking thy life pleasure them?†
Chpt 24
- "How, minion," said she to the female speaker, "is this the manner in which you requite the kindness which permitted thee to leave thy prison-cell yonder?†
Chpt 26
- If I appear in the lists, I must maintain my name in arms; and if I do so, championed or unchampioned, thou diest by the stake and faggot, for there lives not the knight who hath coped with me in arms on equal issue, or on terms of vantage, save Richard Coeur-de-Lion, and his minion of Ivanhoe.†
Chpt 39
- Would to God, Richard, or any of his vaunting minions of England, would appear in these lists!†
Chpt 39minions = someone considered to be an unimportant servant or follower of someone considered important
Definitions:
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(1)
(minion) someone considered to be an unimportant servant or follower of someone considered important
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and archaically), minion can reference someone who is highly favored by another who is more powerful; or a mistress; or something small such as a typeface or caliber of munition.