All 6 Uses of
decisive
in
Emma
- The looking over his letter again, in replying to it, had such a softening tendency, that it was particularly necessary to brace her up with a few decisive expressions; and she was so very much concerned at the idea of making him unhappy, and thought so much of what his mother and sisters would think and say, and was so anxious that they should not fancy her ungrateful, that Emma believed if the young man had come in her way at that moment, he would have been accepted after all.†
Chpt 1.7-8
- The style of the visit, and the shortness of it, were then felt to be decisive.†
Chpt 2.5-6 *
- They were called on to share in the awkwardness of a rather long interval between the courses, and obliged to be as formal and as orderly as the others; but when the table was again safely covered, when every corner dish was placed exactly right, and occupation and ease were generally restored, Emma said, "The arrival of this pianoforte is decisive with me.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- That would be so very painful a conclusion of their present acquaintance! and yet, she could not help rather anticipating something decisive.†
Chpt 3.1-2
- Harriet had been conscious of a difference in his behaviour ever since those two decisive dances.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- —She wrote to her, therefore, kindly, but decisively, to beg that she would not, at present, come to Hartfield; acknowledging it to be her conviction, that all farther confidential discussion of one topic had better be avoided; and hoping, that if a few days were allowed to pass before they met again, except in the company of others—she objected only to a tete-a-tete—they might be able to act as if they had forgotten the conversation of yesterday.†
Chpt 3.11-12 *
Definitions:
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(decisive as in: a decisive defeat) determining an outcome; or ending question
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(decisive as in: a decisive decision maker) making quick decisions and sticking by them; or describing an action as firm or without hesitation