Both Uses of
fruition
in
Jane Eyre
- While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it was no longer plain: there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition, and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple.†
Chpt 24 *
- No, Jane, no: this world is not the scene of fruition; do not attempt to make it so: nor of rest; do not turn slothful.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(fruition as in: plan is approaching fruition) when work begins to create the desired result (when it "bears fruit")