The Only Use of
avert
in
Great Expectations
- She turned her face to me for the first time since she had averted it, and, to my amazement, I may even add to my terror, dropped on her knees at my feet; with her folded hands raised to me in the manner in which, when her poor heart was young and fresh and whole, they must often have been raised to heaven from her mother's side.†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(avert as in: avert her eyes) turn away or aside -- often to turn your eyes away from something