Both Uses of
impulsive
in
Jane Eyre
- …affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest — " "Hush, Jane! you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement; the sovereign hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble self, or than creatures feeble as you.†
Chpt 8
- Every good, true, vigorous feeling I have gathers impulsively round him.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(impulsive) action without forethought; or such a tendency