All 4 Uses of
competent
in
Great Expectations
- I recalled the hopeless circumstances by which she had been surrounded in the miserable little shop and the miserable little noisy evening school, with that miserable old bundle of incompetence always to be dragged and shouldered.†
Chpt 17
- He gave the medical testimony, in pointed imitation of our local practitioner; and he piped and shook, as the aged turnpike-keeper who had heard blows, to an extent so very paralytic as to suggest a doubt regarding the mental competency of that witness.
Chpt 18competency = legal capability
- He may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect.
Chpt 19competent = sufficiently capable
- "Drummle," said I, "you are not competent to give advice on that subject."
Chpt 43 *
Definition:
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(competent) capable (able to do something in a generally satisfactory manner) -- sometimes specifically to have legal capability