All 3 Uses of
eschew
in
Jane Eyre
- …received from her a turn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile — when I perceived that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the continued outbreaks of her violent and unreasonable temper, or the vexations of her absurd, contradictory, exacting orders — even then I restrained myself: I eschewed upbraiding, I curtailed remonstrance; I tried to devour my repentance and disgust in secret; I repressed the deep antipathy I felt.†
Chpt 27
- Any enjoyment that bordered on riot seemed to approach me to her and her vices, and I eschewed it.†
Chpt 27
- Well may he eschew the calm of domestic life; it is not his element: there his faculties stagnate — they cannot develop or appear to advantage.†
Chpt 34 *
Definition:
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(eschew) avoid and stay away from deliberately