All 3 Uses of
incongruity
in
Middlemarch
- Not that this inward amazement of Dorothea's was anything very exceptional: many souls in their young nudity are tumbled out among incongruities and left to "find their feet" among them, while their elders go about their business.†
Chpt 2 *
- "What original notions you clever men have!" said Rosamond, dimpling with more thorough laughter than usual at this humorous incongruity.†
Chpt 4
- It may seem odd that with such pleasant habits he should have been given to the heroic treatment, bleeding and blistering and starving his patients, with a dispassionate disregard to his personal example; but the incongruity favored the opinion of his ability among his patients, who commonly observed that Mr. Toller had lazy manners, but his treatment was as active as you could desire: no man, said they, carried more seriousness into his profession: he was a little slow in coming, but…†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(incongruity) the quality of being out of place