All 7 Uses of
apprehend
in
Emma
- Pray excuse me; but supposing any little inconvenience may be apprehended from the intimacy, it cannot be expected that Emma, accountable to nobody but her father, who perfectly approves the acquaintance, should put an end to it, so long as it is a source of pleasure to herself.†
Chpt 1.5-6
- For a little while Emma persevered in her silence; but beginning to apprehend the bewitching flattery of that letter might be too powerful, she thought it best to say, "I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.†
Chpt 1.7-8
- —That she is a gentleman's daughter, is indubitable to me; that she associates with gentlemen's daughters, no one, I apprehend, will deny.†
Chpt 1.7-8
- I have been always telling you, my love, that I had no idea of the change being so very material to Hartfield as you apprehended; and now you have Emma's account, I hope you will be satisfied."†
Chpt 1.11-12 *
- He had seen the coachmen, and they both agreed with him in there being nothing to apprehend.†
Chpt 1.15-16 *
- Dinner-parties and evening-parties were made for him and his lady; and invitations flowed in so fast that she had soon the pleasure of apprehending they were never to have a disengaged day.†
Chpt 2.15-16
- Mr. Woodhouse considered eight persons at dinner together as the utmost that his nerves could bear—and here would be a ninth—and Emma apprehended that it would be a ninth very much out of humour at not being able to come even to Hartfield for forty-eight hours without falling in with a dinner-party.†
Chpt 2.15-16
Definitions:
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(apprehend as in: apprehend the criminal) to capture and arrest someone suspected of breaking the law
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(apprehend as in: apprehend the situation) to understand or perceive (see or become aware of)