Both Uses of
distort
in
Bleak House
- Your early recollection, my dear, will supply the gloomy medium through which all this was seen and expressed by the writer, and the distorted religion which clouded her mind with impressions of the need there was for the child to expiate an offence of which she was quite innocent.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- Jarndyce and Jarndyce had obtained such possession of his whole nature that it was impossible to place any consideration before him which he did not, with a distorted kind of reason, make a new argument in favour of his doing what he did.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(distort) to alter something in an unnatural or untrue way