All 50 Uses
erudite
in
Allegiant
(Edited)
- —From the Erudite faction manifesto
p. i.9erudite = in this novel, the group of people who most prize deep scholarly knowledge
- I PACE IN our cell in Erudite headquarters, her words echoing in my mind: My name will be Edith Prior, and there is much I am happy —to forget.
p. 1.1
- But Edith is an Abnegation name, and my father's relatives must have been Erudite, so ...
p. 2.1
- It's been days since Evelyn mastered the chaos in the lobby of Erudite headquarters with a few short commands and had all the prisoners hustled away to cells on the third floor.
p. 2.9
- It isn't as clean as it was when it was the Erudite compound; now it is ravaged by war, bullet holes in the walls and the broken glass of shattered lightbulbs everywhere.
p. 4.6
- "You and every other Erudite who ever stuck a needle in me," Tris snaps.
p. 8.4
- She promised me she wouldn't go to her death in the Erudite compound when Jeanine demanded the sacrifice of a Divergent, and then she did it anyway.
p. 9.2
- She told me she would stay home during the Erudite attack, and then I found her in Erudite headquarters, working with my father.
p. 9.3
- She told me she would stay home during the Erudite attack, and then I found her in Erudite headquarters, working with my father.
p. 9.3
- We are in the conference room in Erudite headquarters, where the trials have been taking place.
p. 11.7
- I can see why you didn't choose Erudite.
p. 13.1
- Former faction members are required to move closer to Erudite headquarters and mix, no more than four members of a particular faction in each dwelling.
p. 15.6
- This floor of Erudite headquarters is all glass, even the walls.
p. 15.8
- "It used to be the Erudite initiate dormitory," Uriah says.
p. 16.1
- Sitting on a bed near the door are three girls in red shirts—Amity girls, I would guess—and on the left side of the room, an older woman lies on one of the beds, her spectacles dangling from one ear—possibly one of the Erudite.
p. 16.3
- This time it's Jeanine's old desk in Erudite headquarters that she sits on the edge of, her toes balanced on the floor and the cloudy light of the city glowing behind her.
p. 18.2
- I leave Erudite headquarters amid a crowd of people, my eyes confused, hunting for faction colors automatically when there are none left.
p. 23.1
- There are a few people milling around the entrance to Erudite headquarters, but none of them notices me creeping across Michigan Avenue.
p. 24.8
- He takes out a small bottle with clear, bubbling liquid in it, and as he twists open the cap, says, "I stole it from the Erudite kitchens."
p. 27.6
- "I don't know if you can understand what it was like to wake up alone, and know that you had gone"—to your death, is what I suspect he wants to say, but he can't even say the words—"to Erudite headquarters."
p. 28.2
- I don't know what the Erudite are always bragging about.
p. 30.7 *erudite = in this novel, the group of people who most prize deep scholarly knowledgeeditor's notes: Outside of this novel, erudite is not capitalized and describes someone as "having or showing deep scholarly knowledge".
- I am right behind them, elbowing my way past slow-movers through the lobby of Erudite headquarters, where the portrait of Jeanine Matthews still lies in shreds on the floor.
p. 34.4erudite = in this novel, the group of people who most prize deep scholarly knowledge
- An Erudite man—his faction still indicated by his neatly parted hair—bursts free of the crowd just as Edward is pulling back the sledgehammer for another swing.
p. 35.6
- She tries to run to Edward and the Erudite man, but Christina stops her with both hands.
p. 35.9
- The Erudite man's face turns purple.
p. 35.9
- Edward rips the sledgehammer handle from the Erudite man's hands and swings again.
p. 36.1
- But he's off balance, dizzy with rage—the sledgehammer h is the Erudite man in the shoulder at full force, metal cracking bone.
p. 36.2
- For a moment all I hear is the Erudite man's screams.
p. 36.3
- Then the crowd explodes into a frenzy, everyone running toward the bowls, toward Edward, toward the Erudite man.
p. 36.4
- I don't know where to run: to the Erudite man, to Edward, to Tris?
p. 36.5
- She is somewhere in front of me, struggling toward the Erudite man.
p. 36.9
- Tris and Christina crouch next to the Erudite man with the shattered shoulder.
p. 37.2
- His combed Erudite hair is tousled.
p. 37.3
- I look over my shoulder at Tris and the Erudite man, who hasn't moved.
p. 37.9
- The makeshift hospital at Erudite headquarters smells like chemicals, almost gritty in my nose.
p. 38.8
- The next day, Evelyn stands among the pieces of Jeanine Matthews's portrait in the Erudite headquarters lobby and announces a new set of rules.
p. 45.5
- They sit on the bed across from mine, and I tell them about getting cornered in one of the Erudite laboratories the night before, about the pillowcase and the Allegiant and the meeting.
p. 53.4
- Christina and I weave a complicated path through Erudite headquarters on our way to the back staircase, avoiding patrolling factionless.
p. 55.5
- I whisper to Christina, when we're on State Street and far enough away from Erudite headquarters that it's safe to talk.
p. 56.5
- My legs are trembling from overexertion—I can't imagine going down the stairs and running back to Erudite headquarters later.
p. 58.2
- There is a mix of familiar and unfamiliar faces in the room: Susan and Robert stand together, talking; Peter is alone on the side of the room, his arms crossed; Uriah and Zeke are with Tori and a few other Dauntless; Christina is with her mother and sister; and in a corner are two nervous-looking Erudite.
p. 58.9
- An Erudite from head to foot, but not Jeanine Matthews.
p. 60.9
- Which is probably when he proved his loyalty to Cara—he had some kind of friendship with her before she left Erudite headquarters not long ago.
p. 61.3
- "He kept the Erudite from killing you," Cara says mildly.
p. 62.8
- But of course, Cara was the only well-known defector from Erudite at that time, the only person Peter would have known to ask for help.
p. 62.9
- A Dauntless transfer to Erudite, no doubt.
p. 63.4
- "Cara, you'll need to get out of the city fast," the Dauntless-turned-Erudite girl says.
p. 63.9
- The Erudite girl prods at any weaknesses she sees, and so does Cara, and soon they are all shored up, like we have just built a secure structure.
p. 64.7
- Uriah, Zeke, and Christina start toward Erudite headquarters, and I hold Tris's hand to keep her back.
p. 65.3
- Like the cells on the third floor of Erudite headquarters.
p. 75.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(erudite) having or showing deep scholarly knowledge
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)