Both Uses of
laceration
in
Middlemarch
- The presence of a new gloom in her husband, about which he was entirely reserved towards her—for he dreaded to expose his lacerated feeling to her neutrality and misconception—soon received a painfully strange explanation, alien to all her previous notions of what could affect her happiness.†
Chpt 8
- The answer was a blank which Rosamond could only fill up with dread, for Will Ladislaw's lacerating words had made every thought of Dorothea a fresh smart to her.†
Chpt 8 *
Definition:
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(laceration) a cut -- especially of the skin -- and often implying that the cut was not clean, but instead left jagged edges