All 15 Uses of
trifle
in
Emma
- How trifling they make every thing else appear!†
Chpt 1.9-10 (definition 1) *
- "My mother's deafness is very trifling you see—just nothing at all.†
Chpt 2.1-2 (definition 1)
- …he could make any reply, Mr. Woodhouse, whose thoughts were on the Bates's, said— "It is a great pity that their circumstances should be so confined! a great pity indeed! and I have often wished—but it is so little one can venture to do—small, trifling presents, of any thing uncommon— Now we have killed a porker, and Emma thinks of sending them a loin or a leg; it is very small and delicate—Hartfield pork is not like any other pork—but still it is pork—and, my dear Emma, unless one…†
Chpt 2.3-4 (definition 1)
- She exerted herself, and did try to make her comfortable, by considering all that had passed as a mere trifle, and quite unworthy of being dwelt on, "It might be distressing, for the moment," said she; "but you seem to have behaved extremely well; and it is over—and may never—can never, as a first meeting, occur again, and therefore you need not think about it."†
Chpt 2.3-4 (definition 1)
- The circumstance was told him at Hartfield; for the moment, he was silent; but Emma heard him almost immediately afterwards say to himself, over a newspaper he held in his hand, "Hum! just the trifling, silly fellow I took him for."†
Chpt 2.7-8 (definition 1)
- Mr. Knightley, he is not a trifling, silly young man.†
Chpt 2.7-8 (definition 1)
- —No, I am perfectly sure that he is not trifling or silly.†
Chpt 2.7-8 (definition 1)
- And Frank Churchill was heard to say, "I think you could manage this without effort; the first part is so very trifling.†
Chpt 2.7-8 (definition 1)
- Long before he reappeared, attending the short, neat, brisk-moving aunt, and her elegant niece,—Mrs. Weston, like a sweet-tempered woman and a good wife, had examined the passage again, and found the evils of it much less than she had supposed before—indeed very trifling; and here ended the difficulties of decision.†
Chpt 2.11-12 (definition 1)
- All the minor arrangements of table and chair, lights and music, tea and supper, made themselves; or were left as mere trifles to be settled at any time between Mrs. Weston and Mrs. Stokes.†
Chpt 2.11-12 (definition 1)
- Mrs. Churchill was unwell—far too unwell to do without him; she had been in a very suffering state (so said her husband) when writing to her nephew two days before, though from her usual unwillingness to give pain, and constant habit of never thinking of herself, she had not mentioned it; but now she was too ill to trifle, and must entreat him to set off for Enscombe without delay.†
Chpt 2.11-12 (definition 1)
- But while so many were devoting him to Emma, and Emma herself making him over to Harriet, Mr. Knightley began to suspect him of some inclination to trifle with Jane Fairfax.†
Chpt 3.5-6 (definition 2)
- Weston do not trifle with me.†
Chpt 3.9-10 (definition 2) *
- My acquaintance with him has been but trifling.†
Chpt 3.13-14 (definition 1)
- "He trifles here," said he, "as to the temptation.†
Chpt 3.15-16 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity
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(2) (trifle with as in: trifle with her affections) to treat somebody or something thoughtlessly or without respect