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View synonyms for Simon Legree

Simon Legree

[ li-gree ]

noun

  1. the brutal plantation owner in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin who abuses and murders several enslaved people.
  2. any harsh, merciless master:

    Our math teacher is a Simon Legree.



Legree, Simon

  1. 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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