All 6 Uses of
founder
in
Great Expectations
Uses with a very rare meaning:
- It is not wholly irrespective of our personal feelings that we record HIM as the Mentor of our young Telemachus, for it is good to know that our town produced the founder of the latter's fortunes.†
Chpt 28
- I entertain a conviction, based upon large experience, that if in the days of my prosperity I had gone to the North Pole, I should have met somebody there, wandering Esquimaux or civilized man, who would have told me that Pumblechook was my earliest patron and the founder of my fortunes.†
Chpt 28
- Finally, he went away with Mr. and Mrs. Hubble,—to make an evening of it, I felt sure, and to tell the Jolly Bargemen that he was the founder of my fortunes and my earliest benefactor.†
Chpt 35
- This bringing us into conversation, he was so good as to entertain me with my own story,—of course with the popular feature that Pumblechook was my earliest benefactor and the founder of my fortunes.†
Chpt 52
- Says you, "Joseph, I have this day seen my earliest benefactor and the founder of my fortun's.†
Chpt 58
- Reward of ingratitoode to his earliest benefactor, and founder of fortun's.†
Chpt 58 *
Definition:
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A less common meaning refers to someone who manufactures things made from cast metal.