All 7 Uses of
dissipate
in
Middlemarch
- There was a vague uneasiness associated with the word "unsteady" which she hoped Rosamond might say something to dissipate.†
Chpt 1 *
- Most of those who saw Fred riding out of Middlemarch in company with Bambridge and Horrock, on his way of course to Houndsley horse-fair, thought that young Vincy was pleasure-seeking as usual; and but for an unwonted consciousness of grave matters on hand, he himself would have had a sense of dissipation, and of doing what might be expected of a gay young fellow.†
Chpt 3
- The fire was not dissipated yet, and she thought it was ignoble in her husband not to apologize to her.†
Chpt 3
- It would be a graceful, easy way of piecing on the new habits to the old, to have a few playful words with Rosamond about his resistance to dissipation, and his firm resolve to take long fasts even from sweet sounds.†
Chpt 3
- It was generally known in Middlemarch that a good deal of money was lost and won in this way; and the consequent repute of the Green Dragon as a place of dissipation naturally heightened in some quarters the temptation to go there.†
Chpt 7
- He listened eagerly to what Lydgate had to say in dissipation of his fears, though this too was only repetition; and this moment in which Bulstrode was receiving a medical opinion with a sense of comfort, seemed to make the communication of a personal need to him easier than it had been in Lydgate's contemplation beforehand.†
Chpt 7
- Hence he made his preparations at first in a conditional way, wishing to leave on all sides an opening for his return after brief absence, if any favorable intervention of Providence should dissipate his fears.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(dissipate) to gradually disappear; or to gradually waste