All 8 Uses of
negative
in
Middlemarch
- But on safe opportunities, she had an indirect mode of making her negative wisdom tell upon Dorothea, and calling her down from her rhapsodic mood by reminding her that people were staring, not listening.†
Chpt 1
- "Yes," said Mr. Casaubon, with that peculiar pitch of voice which makes the word half a negative.†
Chpt 2
- It is true, Lydgate had the counter-idea of remaining unengaged; but this was a mere negative, a shadow east by other resolves which themselves were capable of shrinking.†
Chpt 3
- The result was a decided negative.†
Chpt 3 *
- Were I assured that this is the utmost I can reasonably expect, that assurance would be a useful circumscription of my attempts, and a guide in both the positive and negative determination of my course.†
Chpt 4
- He had long ago made up his mind to what he thought was her negative character—her want of sensibility, which showed itself in disregard both of his specific wishes and of his general aims.†
Chpt 7
- Hence, in spite of the negative as to any direct sign of guilt in relation to the death at Stone Court, Mr. Hawley's select party broke up with the sense that the affair had "an ugly look."†
Chpt 7
- But no one stated exactly what else that was in her power she ought rather to have done—not even Sir James Chettam, who went no further than the negative prescription that she ought not to have married Will Ladislaw.†
Chpt Fin.
Definition:
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(negative as in: had a negative effect) bad or harmful