All 4 Uses of
rout
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Any allusion made to his father by a fellow or by a master put his calm to rout in a moment.†
Chpt 2
- At the same moment he thought he saw a likeness between his father's mind and that of this smiling well-dressed priest: and he was aware of some desecration of the priest's office or of the vestry itself whose silence was now routed by loud talk and joking and its air pungent with the smells of the gas-jets and the grease.†
Chpt 2
- Bodily unrest and chill and weariness beset him, routing his thoughts.†
Chpt 3 *
- Rude brutal anger routed the last lingering instant of ecstasy from his soul.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Rout has other common meanings such as to make a groove, dig, search, or find. In classic literature, it can have varied meanings including reference to a disorderly group of people or a large party. The British may use the word to describe the noise cows make. The word form routings may refer to the routes taken to get somewhere.