Both Uses of
irrepressible
in
Sense and Sensibility
- "— Elinor could have given her immediate relief by suggesting the possibility of its being Miss Morton's mother, rather than her own, whom they were about to behold; but instead of doing that, she assured her, and with great sincerity, that she did pity her—to the utter amazement of Lucy, who, though really uncomfortable herself, hoped at least to be an object of irrepressible envy to Elinor.†
Chpt 34
- His was an involuntary confidence, an irrepressible effusion to a soothing friend—not an application to a parent.†
Chpt 45 *
Definition:
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(irrepressible) impossible to repress or control