The Only Use of
querulous
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity; and, by the middle of June, Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton without tears; an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope that by the following Christmas she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless, by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the War Office, another regiment should be quartered in Meryton.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(querulous) habitually complaining -- especially in a high-pitched whiny voice