All 4 Uses
adverse
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Cary
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- The Power
Adverse to these shall then in glory come,
Each one forthwith to his sad tomb repair,
Resume his fleshly vesture and his form,
And hear the eternal doom re-echoing rend
The vault.†Canto 1.1-11 * - I, willing to obey him, straight reveal'd
The whole, nor kept back aught: whence he, his brow
Somewhat uplifting, cried: "Fiercely were they
Adverse to me, my party, and the blood
From whence I sprang: twice therefore I abroad
Scatter'd them."†Canto 1.1-11 - Dwell not in thy memory
The words, wherein thy ethic page describes
Three dispositions adverse to Heav'n's will,
Incont'nence, malice, and mad brutishness,
And how incontinence the least offends
God, and least guilt incurs?†Canto 1.1-11 - Following its course
The adverse way, my strained eyes were bent
On that one spot.†Canto 1.23-34
Definitions:
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(1)
(adverse) working against one's interests
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)