Both Uses of
precept
in
Wuthering Heights
- He appeared to have bent his malevolence on making him a brute: he was never taught to read or write; never rebuked for any bad habit which did not annoy his keeper; never led a single step towards virtue, or guarded by a single precept against vice.†
Chpt 18 *
- Could it be hurtful to send for some one — some minister of any denomination, it does not matter which — to explain it, and show you how very far you have erred from its precepts; and how unfit you will be for its heaven, unless a change takes place before you die?'†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(precept) a rule for behavior -- especially a shared moral doctrine