All 3 Uses of
rupture
in
Sense and Sensibility
- But every circumstance that could embitter such an evil seemed uniting to heighten the misery of Marianne in a final separation from Willoughby—in an immediate and irreconcilable rupture with him.†
Chpt 28 *
- "I am sorry to say, ma'am, in a most unhappy rupture:— Edward is dismissed for ever from his mother's notice.†
Chpt 37
- —In honest words, her money was necessary to me, and in a situation like mine, any thing was to be done to prevent a rupture.†
Chpt 44
Definition:
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(rupture) to burst, break, or tear; or the resultant damage -- can also be non-physical as in damaging a relationship or logical argument