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  • a wretch

    Justine is the third character, after the Creature (I:4:2 and I:4:3) and Victor (I:4:5
    and I:6:19), to share this appellation. Perhaps, however, she applies it with a nuanced
    difference of meaning from its usage in their circumstances.

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  • ballots

    These were wooden balls secretly selected by those judging a trial.

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  • Lives of the Alchemystical Philosophers

    Francis Barrett's Lives of the Alchemystical Philosophers with a Critical Catalogue
    of Books on Occult Chemistry (1815) was listed in the advertisement sheet attached
    to Lackington's edition of Frankenstein in 1818. Revised and republished in 1888 by
    Arthur Edward Waite, this work contains brief accounts of two of the young Victor
    Frankenstein's favorite authors: Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus.

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  • 1684 T. Burnet Th. Earth II. 63 Inflammable salts, coal and other fossiles that are
    ardent.

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  • 1833 Brewster Nat. Magic iv. 79 Spirits of wine, or any ardent spirit.

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  • 1799 G. Smith Laboratory II. 437 An Ardent Water to engrave Steel deeply. . .Take
    a sponge, dipt into ardent water.

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  • 1603 Holland Plutarch (1657) 117 Fixing his eyes fast upon a fiery and ardent mirror.

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  • 1718 Pope Iliad iii. 525 From rank to rank she darts her ardent eyes.

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  • 1827 Hood Mids. Fairies 3 Fish, Quenching their ardent scales in watry gloom.

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  • c. 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iv. iii. 121 3if he [be] ardaunt in auarice.
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