All 3 Uses of
capricious
in
Great Expectations
- I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coercion, was unjust to me.†
Chpt 8
- Biddy was never insulting, or capricious, or Biddy to-day and somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no pleasure, from giving me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own breast than mine.†
Chpt 17
- That girl's hard and haughty and capricious to the last degree, and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex.
Chpt 22 *capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
Definition:
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(capricious) impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior