Both Uses of
self-evident
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Mrs. Dashwood, not less watchful of what passed than her daughter, but with a mind very differently influenced, and therefore watching to very different effect, saw nothing in the Colonel's behaviour but what arose from the most simple and self-evident sensations, while in the actions and words of Marianne she persuaded herself to think that something more than gratitude already dawned.†
Chpt 46
- Edward was, of course, immediately convinced that nothing could have been more natural than Lucy's conduct, nor more self-evident than the motive of it.†
Chpt 49 *
Definition:
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(self-evident) obviously so, or known to be true without proof