Both Uses of
sensual
in
Jane Eyre
- Bitter and base associations have become the sole food of your memory: you wander here and there, seeking rest in exile: happiness in pleasure — I mean in heartless, sensual pleasure — such as dulls intellect and blights feeling.†
Chpt 20 *
- "Jane, I excuse you for the present: two months' grace I allow you for the full enjoyment of your new position, and for pleasing yourself with this late-found charm of relationship; but THEN, I hope you will begin to look beyond Moor House and Morton, and sisterly society, and the selfish calm and sensual comfort of civilised affluence.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(sensual) relating to pleasing the body's senses (in contrast to the intellect) -- especially of sexual sensation