Both Uses of
spontaneous
in
Great Expectations
- It was quite a wilderness, and there were old melon-frames and cucumber-frames in it, which seemed in their decline to have produced a spontaneous growth of weak attempts at pieces of old hats and boots, with now and then a weedy offshoot into the likeness of a battered saucepan.†
Chpt 11 *
- But then, as Herbert changed the bandages, more by the light of the fire than by the outer light, he went back to it spontaneously.†
Chpt 50
Definition:
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(spontaneous) behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner
or:
happening naturally (without planning or external force)