All 6 Uses of
gratification
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- The whisper that my master was my father, may or may not be true; and, true or false, it is of but little consequence to my purpose whilst the fact remains, in all its glaring odiousness, that slaveholders have ordained, and by law established, that the children of slave women shall in all cases follow the condition of their mothers; and this is done too obviously to administer to their own lusts, and make a gratification of their wicked desires profitable as well as pleasurable; for by this cunning arrangement, the slaveholder, in cases not a few, sustains to his slaves the double relation of master and father.†
Chpt 1
- So strong was my desire, that I thought a gratification of it would fully compensate for whatever loss of comforts I should sustain by the exchange.†
Chpt 5 *
- She was nevertheless left a slave—a slave for life—a slave in the hands of strangers; and in their hands she saw her children, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren, divided, like so many sheep, without being gratified with the small privilege of a single word, as to their or her own destiny.†
Chpt 8gratified = gave or received what was desired; or pleased
- The gratification afforded by the triumph was a full compensation for whatever else might follow, even death itself.†
Chpt 10
- It would afford me great pleasure indeed, as well as materially add to the interest of my narrative, were I at liberty to gratify a curiosity, which I know exists in the minds of many, by an accurate statement of all the facts pertaining to my most fortunate escape.†
Chpt 11gratify = give pleasure or satisfaction
- But I must deprive myself of this pleasure, and the curious of the gratification which such a statement would afford.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
great satisfaction (pleasure)