All 3 Uses of
breach
in
Jane Eyre
- Miss Ingram rose solemnly: "I go first," she said, in a tone which might have befitted the leader of a forlorn hope, mounting a breach in the van of his men.†
Chpt 18 *
- Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? for you have neither relatives nor acquaintances whom you need fear to offend by living with me?†
Chpt 27
- I replied — "There is no dishonour, no breach of promise, no desertion in the case.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(breach) break -- as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall