Both Uses of
diversion
in
Middlemarch
- Tell her, her husband wants liveliness, diversion: put her on amusing tactics.†
Chpt 3 *
- He trusted that he should make the best return, if return were possible, by showing the effectiveness of the education for which he was indebted, and by ceasing in future to need any diversion towards himself of funds on which others might have a better claim.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(diversion as in: a diversion to draw troops away) a distraction -- something that draws someone's attention so they don't notice something else