Both Uses of
visionary
in
Middlemarch
- There had risen before her the girl's vision of a possible future for herself to which she looked forward with trembling hope, and she wanted to wander on in that visionary future without interruption.†
Chpt 1 *
- Raffles denied this with solemn adjurations; the fact being that the links of consciousness were interrupted in him, and that his minute terror-stricken narrative to Caleb Garth had been delivered under a set of visionary impulses which had dropped back into darkness.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(visionary) having or a person having unusual powers of foresight
or (less commonly): having or a person having impractical ideas