Wandering Through Chapter 3 - More About Alcoholism
Chapter 3 - page 33
robust
"Though a robust man at retirement, he went to pieces quickly and was dead within four years."
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Big Book - More About Alcoholism - page 33
In this sentence the word robust functions as an adjective. 2
In this sentence the word robust means healthy, in good shape.
Definition is from Webster's 1930 edition. 3
gravely
"To be gravely affected, one does not necessarily have to drink a long time nor take the quantities some of us have."
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Big Book - More About Alcoholism - page 33
In this sentence the word gravely functions as a adverb. 2
"In the sentence the phrase gravely affected describes something that has serious and significant consequences.
Definition is from Webster's 1930 edition. 3
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Footnotes for page 33
1Quotes from the Big Book on listed on this page are from the public domain version, in the United States, of the 2nd edition of the book Alcoholics Anonymous. Accessible at 12step.org
2Sentence diagramming, to determine the word usage within the sentence, was performed by CoreNLP at corenlp.run.
3Definitions used are from the Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language 1930 Edition. Access to this dictionary online is at Hathitrust.org