Both Uses of
epithet
in
Jane Eyre
- Too often she betrayed this, by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adele: pushing her away with some contumelious epithet if she happened to approach her; sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and acrimony.†
Chpt 18
- You missed your epithet.†
Chpt 32 *
Definition:
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(epithet as in: racial epithet) an insulting or abusive word or phrase