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GRATIFIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having received what was desired
Classified under:
Similar:
pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb gratify
Context examples:
My senses were gratified and refreshed by a thousand scents of delight and a thousand sights of beauty.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Here was a face with flashing eyes and distorted features, a face convulsed with hatred and with the mad joy of gratified revenge.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A mist dispersed; I saw my life to be forfeit; and fled from the scene of these excesses, at once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and stimulated, my love of life screwed to the topmost peg.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I feel at once that he is a friend of the family, and am much gratified.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
How well you put it on!—so gratified!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
My whim is gratified; and now I think Mr. Eshton will do well to put the hag in the stocks to-morrow morning, as he threatened.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Much gratified, Jo rushed back to tell the good news, and Amy looked both touched and surprised by the report of May's word and manner.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But Lady Catherine seemed gratified by their excessive admiration, and gave most gracious smiles, especially when any dish on the table proved a novelty to them.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
You may easily imagine that I was much gratified by the offered communication, yet I could not endure that he should renew his grief by a recital of his misfortunes.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Her grateful and gratified heart could hardly restrain its expressions within the language of tolerable calmness.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
