All 6 Uses of
relative
in
Bleak House
- Relatively even to this world of ours, which has its limits too (as your Highness shall find when you have made the tour of it and are come to the brink of the void beyond), it is a very little speck.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- She was greatly occupied during breakfast, for the morning's post brought a heavy correspondence relative to Borrioboola-Gha, which would occasion her (she said) to pass a busy day.†
Chpt 4-6
- Ada told me afterwards that Mrs. Pardiggle talked in the same loud tone (that, indeed, I overheard) all the way to the brickmaker's about an exciting contest which she had for two or three years waged against another lady relative to the bringing in of their rival candidates for a pension somewhere.†
Chpt 7-9
- All Sir Leicester's old misgivings relative to Wat Tyler and the people in the iron districts who do nothing but turn out by torchlight come in a shower upon his head, the fine grey hair of which, as well as of his whiskers, actually stirs with indignation.†
Chpt 28-30
- Now, this Miss Barbary was extremely close—seems to have been extraordinarily close for a female, females being generally (in common life at least) rather given to conversation—and my witness never had an idea whether she possessed a single relative.†
Chpt 28-30
- I saw the doctor that night and asked the favour of him that I wished to ask relative to his saying nothing of my illness in the house as yet.†
Chpt 31-33
Definition:
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(relative as in: the relative importance) compared with something else (not an absolute value or not complete)