All 10 Uses of
abstract
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- For a moment he seemed impressed with the speaking loneliness of the scene, or rather with the complete abstraction from all its compass of the sights and sounds of man.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- The farmer had never turned his head once, but with eyes fixed on the most advanced point along the road, passed as unconsciously and abstractedly as if Bathsheba and her charms were thin air.†
Chpt 10-12
- It was Wisdom in the abstract facing Folly in the concrete.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- Had she felt, which she did not, any wish whatever for the married state in the abstract, she could not reasonably have rejected him, being a woman who frequently appealed to her understanding for deliverance from her whims.†
Chpt 19-21
- This unwonted abstraction by love of all dignity from a man of whom it had ever seemed the chief component, was, in its distressing incongruity, a pain to her which quenched much of the pleasure she derived from the proof that she was idolized.†
Chpt 22-24
- The sergeant looked down the mead in critical abstraction.†
Chpt 25-27
- Bathsheba, overcome by a hundred tumultuous feelings resulting from the scene, abstractedly sat down on a tuft of heather.†
Chpt 28-30
- She had never taken kindly to the idea of marriage in the abstract as did the majority of women she saw about her.†
Chpt 40-42
- To England he did return at last; but the fact of drawing nearer to Weatherbury abstracted its fascinations, and his intention to enter his old groove at the place became modified.†
Chpt 49-51
- Oak, almost before he had comprehended anything beyond the briefest abstract of the event, hurried out of the room, saddled a horse and rode away.†
Chpt 52-54
Definitions:
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(abstract as in: abstract thought) of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
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(abstract as in: read the abstract) a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing