Crossword-Solution: SHYLOCK
We have 12 clues for the answer “SHYLOCK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| JESSICA, father of | 1 answer |
| Loaner of 3,000 ducats. | 1 answer |
| Moneylender in "The Merchant of Venice" | 1 answer |
| Ruthless creditor | 1 answer |
| Shakespeare loan shark | 1 answer |
| lend money at an exorbitant rate of interest | 1 answer |
| money lender from a play | 1 answer |
| "Merchant of Venice" character | 2 answers |
| Loan shark | 4 answers |
| moneylender | 5 answers |
| Usurer | 6 answers |
| Lender | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZAMEEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHYLOCK (5)
Reversing Shylock’s position, they had accepted the employment in hopes of feeding upon the wealthy Jew, and were very much displeased when they found themselves disappointed, by the rapidity with which he insisted on their proceeding.
And you let him--you let yourself be cut in bits’--she mixed her metaphors a little--‘be cut in bits, and used or discarded, while all the while every drop of blood in you belonged to him! But he’s Shylock--and you have bled to death of the pound of flesh he has cut out of you.’ But she despises me the most, you know--far the most--” Mrs.
And I, who had saved and scraped, traded like a Shylock and made junkmen weep; I, who had stood aghast when French Frank, at a single stroke, spent eighty cents for whisky for eight men, I turned myself loose with a more lavish disregard for money than any of them.
She had paid with her heart's blood another installment on the Shylock's bond exacted by society for her own happiness of the past and her children's prospects for the future.
The play was about a Jew named Shylock, and he didn't want his daughter to marry a Venice gentleman named Antonio---- Mrs.
Quotes with SHYLOCK (3)
But what if you are a smart girl in love? All because I was a book nerd didn’t mean, I didn’t feel, I didn’t want. Shylock had cried out in excess of pain, “If you prick me do I not bleed!” But a book nerd is not allowed to be human, to say “you make me melt” and still have her mind want something else entirely?
After Portia has trapped Shylock through his own insistence upon the letter of the law of Contract, she produces another law by which any alien who conspires against the life of a Venetian citizen forfeits his goods and places his life at the Doge’s mercy. […] Shakespeare, it seems to me, was willing to introduce what is an absurd implausibility for the sake of an effect which he could not secure without it: at the last moment when, through his conduct, Shylock has destroyed …
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1948–2005).