All 7 Uses of
negate
in
Middlemarch
- It was perhaps this negation in the Doctor which made his neighbors call him hard-headed and dry-witted; conditions of texture which were also held favorable to the storing of judgments connected with drugs.†
Chpt 2 *
- And in any case, even supposing negations which only a morbid distrust could imagine, Fred had always (at that time) his father's pocket as a last resource, so that his assets of hopefulness had a sort of gorgeous superfluity about them.†
Chpt 3
- Or a benefactor's veto might impose such a negation on a man's life that the consequent blank might be more cruel than the benefaction was generous.†
Chpt 4
- He would never have been easy to call his action anything else than duty; but in this case, contending motives thrust him back into negations.†
Chpt 4
- For his own part he said to himself that he loved her as tenderly as ever, and could make up his mind to her negations; but—well!†
Chpt 6
- In reality, however, she was intensely aware of Lydgate's voice and movements; and her pretty good-tempered air of unconsciousness was a studied negation by which she satisfied her inward opposition to him without compromise of propriety.†
Chpt 7
- As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(negate) to contradict, offset, or render meaningless