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GRATIFICATION

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gratification substantiv

1. satisfacţie, mulţumire, plăcere.

2. gratificaţie, recompensă, răsplată.

3. (peior.)^.mită, ciubuc, şpagă, şperţ.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She has not often a gratification of the kind, and I am sure, ma'am, you would be glad to give her the pleasure now?

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She had not been withstanding them on selfish principles alone, she had not consulted merely her own gratification; that might have been ensured in some degree by the excursion itself, by seeing Blaize Castle; no, she had attended to what was due to others, and to her own character in their opinion.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Understanding and gratification came together.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

At the same time, however, it was a secret gratification to herself to have seen her cousin, and to know that the future owner of Kellynch was undoubtedly a gentleman, and had an air of good sense.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

As for the ball, so near at hand, she had too many agitations and fears to have half the enjoyment in anticipation which she ought to have had, or must have been supposed to have by the many young ladies looking forward to the same event in situations more at ease, but under circumstances of less novelty, less interest, less peculiar gratification, than would be attributed to her.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She was too indolent even to accept a mother's gratification in witnessing their success and enjoyment at the expense of any personal trouble, and the charge was made over to her sister, who desired nothing better than a post of such honourable representation, and very thoroughly relished the means it afforded her of mixing in society without having horses to hire.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

They were relieved by it from all restraint; and without aiming at one gratification that would probably have been forbidden by Sir Thomas, they felt themselves immediately at their own disposal, and to have every indulgence within their reach.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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