Both Uses of
variation
in
Middlemarch
- Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse.†
Chpt Prel *
- After dinner, when Celia was playing an "air, with variations," a small kind of tinkling which symbolized the aesthetic part of the young ladies' education, Dorothea went up to her room to answer Mr. Casaubon's letter.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
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(variation as in: a variation on a theme) something that is different than others of its type (synonyms could include: adaptation, version, alternate form)