All 3 Uses of
depreciation
in
Bleak House
- There was an easy negligence in his manner and even in his dress (his hair carelessly disposed, and his neckkerchief loose and flowing, as I have seen artists paint their own portraits) which I could not separate from the idea of a romantic youth who had undergone some unique process of depreciation.†
Chpt 4-6
- Yet the time is so short since his depreciation began that as he saunters away, reluctant to leave the spot for some long months together, though he hates it, Richard himself may feel his own case as if it were a startling one.†
Chpt 37-39
- Mr. Tulkinghorn, profoundly attentive, throws this off with a shrug of self-depreciation and contracts his eyebrows a little more.†
Chpt 40-42 *
Definition:
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(depreciation) the decrease in the value of something -- especially due to its wearing out or getting old