All 5 Uses of
relative
in
Emma
- That is as formidable an image as you could present, Harriet; and if I thought I should ever be like Miss Bates! so silly—so satisfied—so smiling—so prosing—so undistinguishing and unfastidious—and so apt to tell every thing relative to every body about me, I would marry to-morrow.†
Chpt 1.9-10
- She should then have heard more: Mrs. Weston would speak to her, with a degree of unreserve which she would not hazard with Isabella; and, she really believed, would scarcely try to conceal any thing relative to the Churchills from her, excepting those views on the young man, of which her own imagination had already given her such instinctive knowledge.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- —with many other relative questions, all answered with patient politeness.†
Chpt 3.1-2 *
- …without losing a word—to catch and comprehend the exact truth of the whole; to see that Harriet's hopes had been entirely groundless, a mistake, a delusion, as complete a delusion as any of her own—that Harriet was nothing; that she was every thing herself; that what she had been saying relative to Harriet had been all taken as the language of her own feelings; and that her agitation, her doubts, her reluctance, her discouragement, had been all received as discouragement from herself.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- From our relative situation, those attentions were her due, and were felt to be so.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Definition:
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(relative as in: the relative importance) compared with something else (not an absolute value or not complete)