All 20 Uses of
fraudulent
in
Dante's Inferno
- — Seventh pit: Fraudulent Thieves.†
Canto T.O. *
- Eighth Circle: seventh pit: Fraudulent Thieves.†
Canto T.O.
- Eighth Circle: eighth pit: Fraudulent Counsellors.†
Canto T.O.
- Eighth Circle: eighth pit: Fraudulent Counsellors.†
Canto T.O.
- [2] These three beasts correspond to the triple division of sins into those of incontinence, of violence, and of fraud.†
Canto 1-3
- Of every malice that wins hate in heaven injury is the end, and every such end afflicts others either by force or by fraud.†
Canto 10-12
- But because fraud is the peculiar sin of man, it most displeaseth God; and therefore the fraudulent are the lower, and more woe assails them.†
Canto 10-12
- But because fraud is the peculiar sin of man, it most displeaseth God; and therefore the fraudulent are the lower, and more woe assails them.†
Canto 10-12
- Fraud, by which every conscience is bitten, man may practice on one that confides in him, or on one that owns no confidence.†
Canto 10-12
- [2] And that loathsome image of fraud came onward, and landed his head and his body, but drew not his tail upon the bank.†
Canto 16-18
- [1] Dante makes Geryon the type and image of Fraud, thus allegorizing the triple form (forma tricorperis umbrae: Aeneid vi.†
Canto 16-18
- [2] The course of the Poets, which has mostly been to the left through the upper Circles, is now generally to proceed straight across the lower Circles where Fraud is punished.†
Canto 16-18
- And he replied, "It was Brother Gomita, he of Gallura,[1] vessel of all fraud, who held the enemies of his lord in hand, and dealt so with them that they all praise him for it.†
Canto 22-24
- Gomita was hung for his frauds.†
Canto 22-24
- Eighth Circle: seventh pit: fraudulent thieves.†
Canto 25-27
- He goes not on one road with his brothers because of the fraudulent theft he committed of the great herd that was in his neighborhood; wherefor his crooked deeds ceased under the club of Hercules, who perhaps dealt him a hundred blows with it, and he felt not ten.†
Canto 25-27
- Eighth Circle: eighth pit fraudulent counselors.†
Canto 25-27
- Eighth Circle: eighth pit fraudulent counselors.†
Canto 25-27
- So these sinners are wrapped in the flames which their fraudulent counsels had prepared for them.†
Canto 25-27
- Francis[5] came for me afterwards, when I was dead, but one of the Black Cherubim said to him, 'Bear him not away; do me not wrong; he must come down among my drudges because he gave the fraudulent counsel, since which till now I have been at his hair; for he who repents not cannot be absolved, nor can repentance and will exist together, because of the contradiction that allows it not.'†
Canto 25-27
Definition:
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(fraudulent) dishonesty -- usually for financial gain or ego