All 10 Uses of
philanthropy
in
Les Miserables
- If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you?†
Chpt 2.3
- A few paces more, and you arrive at the abominable pollarded elms of the Barriere Saint-Jacques, that expedient of the philanthropist to conceal the scaffold, that miserable and shameful Place de Grove of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority.†
Chpt 2.4
- The philanthropist?†
Chpt 3.8
- Here is the philanthropist.†
Chpt 3.8
- Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:— "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist."†
Chpt 3.8
- Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the "philanthropist."†
Chpt 3.8
- As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De la Barriere-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, prowlers of the barriers; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the…†
Chpt 3.8
- And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the "philanthropist" had left with him.†
Chpt 3.8
- he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist!"
Chpt 3.8 *philanthropist = someone who helps others -- especially by donating money to worthy causes
- Then addressing M. Leblanc with a fresh outburst of frenzy:— "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist!†
Chpt 3.8
Definition:
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(philanthropy) helping others -- especially donating money to worthy causes; or an organization that does so