All 4 Uses of
stimulus
in
Jane Eyre
- — unjust!" said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression — as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.†
Chpt 2
- Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word BOOK acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library.†
Chpt 3 *
- I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication; for change, stimulus: that petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space: "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant me at least a new servitude!"†
Chpt 10
- I am sure you cannot long be content to pass your leisure in solitude, and to devote your working hours to a monotonous labour wholly void of stimulus: any more than I can be content," he added, with emphasis, "to live here buried in morass, pent in with mountains — my nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven-bestowed, paralysed — made useless.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(stimulus) something that creates growth or excitement, or something that causes an actionin various senses, including:
- economic stimulus -- something that makes the economy grow
- biological or psychological stimulus -- something that makes the body react in a particular way such as when more light make the eye pupil shrink, or when lack of sleep causes stress