All 6 Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- By the outer margin of the Pit was an oval pond, and over it hung the attenuated skeleton of a chrome-yellow moon which had only a few days to last—the morning star dogging her on the left hand.†
Chpt 4-6attenuated = reduced in strength, amount, or size
- It is a sort of attenuated variety of Ixion's punishment, and contributes a dismal chapter to the history of gaols.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- All the lights in the scene were yellow as to colour, and all the shadows were attenuated as to form.†
Chpt 34-36
- A manor-house clock from the far depths of shadow struck the hour, one, in a small, attenuated tone.†
Chpt 40-42
- Some were marked with great splotches, red as arterial blood, others were saffron yellow, and others tall and attenuated, with stems like macaroni.†
Chpt 43-45
- The little attenuated voices of the children brought to her ear in distinct utterance the words they sang without thought or comprehension— Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
reduce in strength, amount, or size