Both Uses of
consort
in
Jane Eyre
- The Ladies Lynn and Ingram continued to consort in solemn conferences, where they nodded their two turbans at each other, and held up their four hands in confronting gestures of surprise, or mystery, or horror, according to the theme on which their gossip ran, like a pair of magnified puppets.†
Chpt 18
- If that will be YOUR married look, I, as a Christian, will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander.†
Chpt 24 *
Definition:
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(consort as in: consort together) associate with (spend time with) -- often spending leisure time with people considered undesirable; or one of the people with whom time is spent