All 3 Uses of
apprise
in
Jane Eyre
- ; the promise pledged by Mr. Brocklehurst to apprise Miss Temple and the teachers of my vicious nature.†
Chpt 7 *
- My father and brother had not made my marriage known to their acquaintance; because, in the very first letter I wrote to apprise them of the union — having already begun to experience extreme disgust of its consequences, and, from the family character and constitution, seeing a hideous future opening to me — I added an urgent charge to keep it secret: and very soon the infamous conduct of the wife my father had selected for me was such as to make him blush to own her as his…†
Chpt 27
- "But I apprised you that I was a hard man," said he, "difficult to persuade."†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(apprise) inform (somebody) of something