chapters 9-13 Flashcards
zeal
strong eagerness
“partook of the religious zeal that brought emigrants”
affinity
close connection marked by community or interests
“if he have the power, which most be born with him, to bring his Mind into such affinity with his patients”
erudition
profound scholarly knowledge
“monkish erudition, of which the Protestant divines”
vilify
spread negative information about "even while they vilified and decried that class of writers"
commodious
large and roomy
“with such commodiousness of situation”
inimical
not friendly
“would become vaguely aware that something inimical to his peace had thrust itself into relation with him
propagate
multiply sexually or asexually
“and which much needs propagate a hellish breed within them”
emaciated
very thin from hunger or cold
“standing up and confronting the emaciated white cheeked minister”
palliate
try to lessen the seriousness of extent of
“which there had been nothing in the physicians words to excuse or palliate”
latent
not presently active
“a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man”
odious
unequivocally detestable
“his gestures….his slightest and most indifferent acts, the very fashion of his garments, were odious in the clergyman’s sight”
antipathy
feeling of intense dislike
“a token implicitly to be relied on of a deeper antipathy in the breast of the latter than he was willing to acknowledge to himself”
ethereal
of heaven or the spirit
“it kept him down on a level with the lowest; him, the man of ethereal attributes, whose voice the Angels might else have listened to and answered”
defile
spot stain or pollute
“and tear him down out of the pulpit in which he defiled?”
inextricable
incapable of being disentangled or united
“in the same inextricable knot, the agony of heaven-defying guilt and vain repentance”
