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GRATIFY

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gratify verb tranzitiv

1. a satisface, a mulţumi (pe cineva), a face (cuiva) pe plac.

2. a desfăta (pe cineva) a face un serviciu / o plăcere (cuiva), a fi agreabil (cuiva).

3. a recompensa, a răsplăti.

4. (peior.) a mitui.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She did not mean, however, to derive much more from it to gratify her vanity, than Mary might have allowed.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Believe me, sir, I am far, very far, from gratified in being the object of such professions.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Once Mercury goes direct, you will see gratifying progress on all your projects, as well as a contract you’ve focused on lately.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Elizabeth said nothing, but it gratified her exceedingly; the compliment must be all for herself.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

"Of ONE thing, my dear sister," kindly taking her hand, and speaking in an awful whisper,—"I may assure you;—and I WILL do it, because I know it must gratify you.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

My aunt was as happy as I was, in the arrangement made for me; and we went down to the drawing-room again, well pleased and gratified.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

This with a gratified smile.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

As John firmly believed that 'my wife' was equal to anything, and took a natural pride in her skill, he resolved that she should be gratified, and their only crop of fruit laid by in a most pleasing form for winter use.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

It was the only thing approaching to a letter which she had ever received from him; she might never receive another; it was impossible that she ever should receive another so perfectly gratifying in the occasion and the style.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Mr. and Mrs. Morland's surprise on being applied to by Mr. Tilney for their consent to his marrying their daughter was, for a few minutes, considerable, it having never entered their heads to suspect an attachment on either side; but as nothing, after all, could be more natural than Catherine's being beloved, they soon learnt to consider it with only the happy agitation of gratified pride, and, as far as they alone were concerned, had not a single objection to start.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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