SYNONIMY PRZYMIOTNIKA 'ZŁY' W "BEATRIKS CENCI" JULIUSZA SŁOWACKIEGO
SYNONYMS OF THE ADJECTIVE 'ZŁY' [BAD] IN "BEATRYKS CENCI" BY JULIUSZ SŁOWACKI

Summary/Abstract: The paper The synonyms of the adjective zły [bad] in Beatryks Cenci by Juliusz Słowacki is aimed at describing the synonymic meanings of the adjective zły (understood among others as: niemoralny [immoral], niegodziwy [vile], gniewny [enraged], rozzłoszczony [angry], niesprawny [defective]) excerpted from the drama Beatryks Cenci by Juliusz Słowacki. The principal part of the paper is a comparative analysis of words accounting for sem components and their stylistic function in particular contextual realisations. The meanings of the synonyms used by Słowacki were compared to dictionary definitions coming from the contemporary and the 19th-century sources. The synonyms have an expressive function, they belong to the names of negative values and serve a more precise characterisation of the described designata. The paper includes also metaphoric contexts.

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