Both Uses of
whim
in
Great Expectations
- It is not the least to the purpose what the reasons of this prohibition are; they may be the strongest and gravest reasons, or they may be mere whim.†
Chpt 18 *
- When you first caused me to be brought here, Miss Havisham, when I belonged to the village over yonder, that I wish I had never left, I suppose I did really come here, as any other chance boy might have come,—as a kind of servant, to gratify a want or a whim, and to be paid for it?†
Chpt 44
Definition:
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(whim) a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation