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View synonyms for Simon Legree
Simon Legree
[ li-gree ]
noun
- the brutal plantation owner in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin who abuses and murders several enslaved people.
- any harsh, merciless master:
Our math teacher is a Simon Legree.
Legree, Simon
- The cruel overseer and owner of slaves in Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe . Though the book describes conditions in the slaveholding states of the South, Legree, the most vicious character in it, is from New England .
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