Both Uses of
symmetry
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Since the receipt of the missive in the morning, Boldwood had felt the symmetry of his existence to be slowly getting distorted in the direction of an ideal passion.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- There was, so to speak, that symmetry in their distortion which is less the characteristic of British than of Continental grotesques of the period.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(symmetry) balance among the parts of something
or more specifically:
having an exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane