Both Uses of
complement
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- To Boldwood women had been remote phenomena rather than necessary complements—comets of such uncertain aspect, movement, and permanence, that whether their orbits were as geometrical, unchangeable, and as subject to laws as his own, or as absolutely erratic as they superficially appeared, he had not deemed it his duty to consider.†
Chpt 16-18
- Still less is it acted upon for the good of the complemental being alluded to.†
Chpt 25-27 *
Definition:
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(complement as in: the color complements her eyes) to combine something with something else to make it better