All 8 Uses
fraud
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Longfellow
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- Of every malice that wins hate in Heaven,
Injury is the end; and all such end
Either by force or fraud afflicteth others.†Canto 1.1-11 - But because fraud is man's peculiar vice,
More it displeases God; and so stand lowest
The fraudulent, and greater dole assails them.†Canto 1.1-11 - But because fraud is man's peculiar vice,
More it displeases God; and so stand lowest
The fraudulent, and greater dole assails them.†Canto 1.1-11 *fraudulent = dishonest - Fraud, wherewithal is every conscience stung,
A man may practise upon him who trusts,
And him who doth no confidence imburse.†Canto 1.1-11 - Art thou so early satiate with that wealth,
For which thou didst not fear to take by fraud
The beautiful Lady, and then work her woe?†Canto 1.12-22 - And he replied: "It was the Friar Gomita,
He of Gallura, vessel of all fraud,
Who had the enemies of his Lord in hand,
And dealt so with them each exults thereat;
Money he took, and let them smoothly off,
As he says; and in other offices
A barrator was he, not mean but sovereign.†Canto 1.12-22 - He goes not on the same road with his brothers,
By reason of the fraudulent theft he made
Of the great herd, which he had near to him;
Whereat his tortuous actions ceased beneath
The mace of Hercules, who peradventure
Gave him a hundred, and he felt not ten.†Canto 1.23-34fraudulent = dishonest - Francis came afterward, when I was dead,
For me; but one of the black Cherubim
Said to him: 'Take him not; do me no wrong;
He must come down among my servitors,
Because he gave the fraudulent advice
From which time forth I have been at his hair;
For who repents not cannot be absolved,
Nor can one both repent and will at once,
Because of the contradiction which consents not.'†Canto 1.23-34
Definitions:
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(1)
(fraud) the act of deceiving someone for personal gain; or a person or thing that is not what it pretends or appears to be
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)