All 12 Uses of
discretion
in
Mansfield Park
- Yes, the profession is well enough under two circumstances: if it make the fortune, and there be discretion in spending it;
Chpt 6 (definition 1) *discretion = good judgment
- Such a victory over Edmund's discretion had been beyond their hopes, and was most delightful.
Chpt 17 (definition 1)discretion = good manners or good judgment
- And then he would have changed the subject, and sipped his coffee in peace over domestic matters of a calmer hue; but Mr. Yates, without discernment to catch Sir Thomas's meaning, or diffidence, or delicacy, or discretion enough to allow him to lead the discourse while he mingled among the others with the least obtrusiveness himself, would keep him on the topic of the theatre, would torment him with questions and remarks relative to it, and finally would make him hear the whole history…
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- Miss Crawford saw much of Sir Thomas's thoughts as he stood, and having, in spite of all his wrongs towards her, a general prevailing desire of recommending herself to him, took an opportunity of stepping aside to say something agreeable of Fanny. Her praise was warm, and he received it as she could wish, joining in it as far as discretion, and politeness, and slowness of speech would allow,
Chpt 28 (definition 1)discretion = good manners
- I was very much pleased with what I collected to have been your behaviour on the occasion; it shewed a discretion highly to be commended.
Chpt 32 (definition 1)discretion = good manners or good judgment
- Sir Thomas gave her more credit for discretion on the occasion than she deserved; and Fanny could have blessed her for allowing her only to see her displeasure, and not to hear it.
Chpt 33 (definition 1)
- She said nothing, however, but, "Sad, sad girl! I do not know when I shall have done scolding you," and had discretion enough to reserve the rest till they might be secure of having four walls to themselves.
Chpt 36 (definition 2) *discretion = behavior that does not attract undesired attention
- Yet there must have been some marked display of attentions to her cousin, there must have been some strong indiscretion, since her correspondent was not of a sort to regard a slight one.
Chpt 46 (definition 2)indiscretion = embarrassing behaviorstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscretion means not and reverses the meaning of discretion. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- Mrs. Rushworth had gone, for the Easter holidays, to Twickenham, with a family whom she had just grown intimate with: a family of lively, agreeable manners, and probably of morals and discretion to suit, for to their house Mr. Crawford had constant access at all times.
Chpt 47 (definition 1)discretion = good judgment
- Mr. Harding feared there had been at least very flagrant indiscretion.
Chpt 47 (definition 2)indiscretion = embarrassing behaviorstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indiscretion means not and reverses the meaning of discretion. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- The want of common discretion, of caution: his going down to Richmond for the whole time of her being at Twickenham; her putting herself in the power of a servant; it was the detection, in short—oh, Fanny! it was the detection, not the offence, which she reprobated.
Chpt 47 (definition 1)discretion = good judgment (or perhaps acting in a way that does not attract undesired attention)
- In this spirit he began the attack, and by animated perseverance had soon re-established the sort of familiar intercourse, of gallantry, of flirtation, which bounded his views; but in triumphing over the discretion which, though beginning in anger, might have saved them both, he had put himself in the power of feelings on her side more strong than he had supposed.
Chpt 48 (definition 1)discretion = good judgment
Definitions:
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(1) (discretion as in: Parental discretion advised.) good judgment or good taste
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(2) (discretion as in: embarrassing lack of discretion) behavior that does not attract undesired attention or reveal private information