All 6 Uses of
abstract
in
Wuthering Heights
- Abstract your mind from the subject at present: you are too prone to covet your neighbour's goods; remember THIS neighbour's goods are mine.'†
Chpt 10
- At first she gave him no glance of recognition: he was invisible to her abstracted gaze.†
Chpt 12
- He walked up and down, with his hands in his pockets, apparently quite forgetting my presence; and his abstraction was evidently so deep, and his whole aspect so misanthropical, that I shrank from disturbing him again.†
Chpt 13 *
- I went round by the garden, and laid wait for the messenger; who fought valorously to defend his trust, and we spilt the milk between us; but I succeeded in abstracting the epistle; and, threatening serious consequences if he did not look sharp home, I remained under the wall and perused Miss Cathy's affectionate composition.†
Chpt 21
- And she leant her pretty head back against the sill, with half a yawn and half a sigh, and lapsed into an aspect of abstracted sadness: neither caring nor knowing whether we remarked her.†
Chpt 31
- 'Let me take that pipe,' she said, cautiously advancing her hand and abstracting it from his mouth.†
Chpt 32 *
Definitions:
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(abstract as in: abstract thought) of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
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(abstract as in: read the abstract) a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing