Both Uses of
relative
in
Heart of Darkness
- The manager was switching his leg with a slender twig: his sagacious relative lifted his head.†
Chpt 2 *
- He withdrew upon some threat of legal proceedings, and I saw him no more; but another fellow, calling himself Kurtz's cousin, appeared two days later, and was anxious to hear all the details about his dear relative's last moments.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(relative as in: the relative importance) compared with something else (not an absolute value or not complete)