All 3 Uses of
prodigy
in
Emma
- …long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems—and where young ladies for enormous pay might be screwed out of health and into vanity—but a real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girls might be sent to be out of the way, and scramble themselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.†
Chpt 1.3-4
- I hope you will be pleased with my son; but you must not expect a prodigy.†
Chpt 2.17-18 *
- He is generally thought a fine young man, but do not expect a prodigy.†
Chpt 2.17-18
Definition:
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(prodigy) someone with exceptional ability -- especially at a young age
or:
an impressive example of something