Both Uses of
appropriate
in
Wuthering Heights
- I reached this book, and a pot of ink from a shelf, and pushed the house-door ajar to give me light, and I have got the time on with writing for twenty minutes; but my companion is impatient, and proposes that we should appropriate the dairywoman's cloak, and have a scamper on the moors, under its shelter.†
Chpt 3
- 'Oh!' she replied, 'I don't wish to limit his acquirements: still, he has no right to appropriate what is mine, and make it ridiculous to me with his vile mistakes and mispronunciations!†
Chpt 31 *
Definition:
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(appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation