Both Uses of
context
in
War and Peace
- The proverbs, of which his talk was full, were for the most part not the coarse and indecent saws soldiers employ, but those folk sayings which taken without a context seem so insignificant, but when used appositely suddenly acquire a significance of profound wisdom.†
Chpt 12
- He did not, and could not, understand the meaning of words apart from their context.†
Chpt 12 *
Definition:
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(context) the setting or situation in which something occurs