All 3 Uses of
abstract
in
Dubliners
- His imagination had so abstracted him that his name was called twice before he answered.†
Chpt 9
- She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed; and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.
Chpt 13 *abstract = of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- Why did she seem so abstracted?†
Chpt 15 *
Definitions:
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(abstract as in: abstract thought) of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
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(abstract as in: read the abstract) a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing