All 38 Uses of
disposition
in
Mansfield Park
- "Should her disposition be really bad," said Sir Thomas, "we must not, for our own children's sake, continue her in the family; but there is no reason to expect so great an evil."
Chpt 1disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
- He was just entering into life, full of spirits, and with all the liberal dispositions of an eldest son, who feels born only for expense and enjoyment.
Chpt 2dispositions = personality and inclinations
- As her appearance and spirits improved, Sir Thomas and Mrs. Norris thought with greater satisfaction of their benevolent plan; and it was pretty soon decided between them that, though far from clever, she showed a tractable disposition, and seemed likely to give them little trouble.
Chpt 2disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
- Such were the counsels by which Mrs. Norris assisted to form her nieces' minds; and it is not very wonderful that, with all their promising talents and early information, they should be entirely deficient in the less common acquirements of self-knowledge, generosity and humility. In everything but disposition they were admirably taught.
Chpt 2
- Edmund's friendship never failed her: his leaving Eton for Oxford made no change in his kind dispositions, and only afforded more frequent opportunities of proving them.
Chpt 2dispositions = inclinations
- The Grants showing a disposition to be friendly and sociable, gave great satisfaction in the main among their new acquaintance.
Chpt 3disposition = inclination (normal tendency)
- Her agitation and alarm exceeded all that was endured by the rest, by the right of a disposition which not even innocence could keep from suffering.
Chpt 19disposition = temperament (in this case, to be highly concerned with doing what is right and to feel bad about any shortcoming)
- She had the highest esteem for Mr. Rushworth's character and disposition, and could not have a doubt of her happiness with him.
Chpt 21disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
- Such and such-like were the reasonings of Sir Thomas, happy to escape the embarrassing evils of a rupture, the wonder, the reflections, the reproach that must attend it; happy to secure a marriage which would bring him such an addition of respectability and influence, and very happy to think anything of his daughter's disposition that was most favourable for the purpose.
Chpt 21
- …no one would have supposed, from her confident triumph, that she had ever heard of conjugal infelicity in her life, or could have the smallest insight into the disposition of the niece who had been brought up under her eye.
Chpt 21disposition = temperament or personality (in this case referring to her being susceptible to violating her marriage vows)
- ...for although there doubtless are such unconquerable young ladies of eighteen ... as are never to be persuaded into love against their judgment by all that talent, manner, attention, and flattery can do, I have no inclination to believe Fanny one of them, or to think that with so much tenderness of disposition, and so much taste as belonged to her, she could have escaped heart-whole from the courtship ... of such a man as Crawford, ... had not her affection been engaged elsewhere.
Chpt 24disposition = temperament (normal way of being)
- I know her disposition to be as sweet and faultless as your own, but the influence of her former companions makes her seem—gives to her conversation, to her professed opinions, sometimes a tinge of wrong.
Chpt 27disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
- Fanny's disposition was such that she could never even think of her aunt Norris in the meagreness and cheerlessness of her own small house, without reproaching herself for some little want of attention to her when they had been last together; much less could her feelings acquit her of having done and said and thought everything by William that was due to him for a whole fortnight.
Chpt 29
- What was tranquillity and comfort to Fanny was tediousness and vexation to Mary. Something arose from difference of disposition and habit: one so easily satisfied, the other so unused to endure; but still more might be imputed to difference of circumstances.
Chpt 29disposition = normal mood and personality
- The gentleness and gratitude of her disposition would secure her all your own immediately. From my soul I do not think she
would marry you without love; that is, if there is a girl in the world capable of being uninfluenced by ambition, I can suppose it her; but ask her to love you, and she will never have the heart to refuse.
Chpt 30disposition = temperament (normal personality or way of being)
- Edmund, I consider, from his dispositions and habits, as much more likely to marry early than his brother.
Chpt 32dispositions = personality and inclinations
- He had all the disposition to persevere that Sir Thomas could wish him.
Chpt 33disposition = inclination (something someone is inclined to do, or tends to do)
- And when farther pressed, had added, that in her opinion their dispositions were so totally dissimilar as to make mutual affection incompatible; and that they were unfitted for each other by nature, education, and habit.
Chpt 33dispositions = personalities and inclinations
- Upon her disposition he believed kindness might be the best way of working.
Chpt 33disposition = personality
- It had every recommendation to him; and while honouring her for what she had done under the influence of her present indifference, honouring her in rather stronger terms than Sir Thomas could quite echo, he was most earnest in hoping, and sanguine in believing, that it would be a match at last, and that, united by mutual affection, it would appear that their dispositions were as exactly fitted to make them blessed in each other, as he was now beginning seriously to consider them.
Chpt 34dispositions = personalities and inclinations
- With such powers as his, however, and such a disposition as hers, Edmund trusted that everything would work out a happy conclusion.
Chpt 34disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
- It is your disposition to be easily dejected and to fancy difficulties greater than they are.
Chpt 35disposition = temperament (normal mood and personality)
- Edmund's account of Fanny's disposition he could believe to be just; he supposed she had all those feelings, but he must consider it as very unfortunate that she had; for, less willing than his son to trust to the future, he could not help fearing that if such very long allowances of time and habit were necessary for her, she might not have persuaded herself into receiving his addresses properly before the young man's inclination for paying them were over.
Chpt 36disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
- Her disposition was peculiarly calculated to value a fond treatment, and from having hitherto known so little of it, she was the more overcome by Miss Crawford's.
Chpt 36disposition = temperament (normal way of being)
- Susan had an open, sensible countenance; she was like William, and Fanny hoped to find her like him in disposition and goodwill towards herself.
Chpt 38disposition = normal mood and personality
- Her disposition was naturally easy and indolent, like Lady Bertram's; and a situation of similar affluence and do-nothingness would have been much more suited to her capacity than the exertions and self-denials of the one which her imprudent marriage had placed her in.
Chpt 39disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
- Her continual disagreements with her mother, her rash squabbles with Tom and Charles, and petulance with Betsey, were at least so distressing to Fanny that, though admitting they were by no means without provocation, she feared the disposition that could push them to such length must be far from amiable, and from affording any repose to herself.
Chpt 39disposition = personality
- Susan had always behaved pleasantly to herself, but the determined character of her general manners had astonished and alarmed her, and it was at least a fortnight before she began to understand a disposition so totally different from her own.
Chpt 40disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
- She acknowledged her fears, blamed herself for having contended so warmly; and from that hour Fanny, understanding the worth of her disposition and perceiving how fully she was inclined to seek her good opinion and refer to her judgment, began to feel again the blessing of affection, and to entertain the hope of being useful to a mind so much in need of help, and so much deserving it.
Chpt 40
- Susan was growing very fond of her, and though without any of the early delight in books which had been so strong in Fanny, with a disposition much less inclined to sedentary pursuits, or to information for information's sake, she had so strong a desire of not appearing ignorant, as, with a good clear understanding, made her a most attentive, profitable, thankful pupil.
Chpt 43disposition = normal inclination or desire
- At about the week's end from his return to Mansfield, Tom's immediate danger was over, and he was so far pronounced safe as to make his mother perfectly easy; for being now used to the sight of him in his suffering, helpless state, and hearing only the best, and never thinking beyond what she heard, with no disposition for alarm and no aptitude at a hint, Lady Bertram was the happiest subject in the world for a little medical imposition.
Chpt 45disposition = inclination
- As to Mr. Crawford, she hoped it might give him a knowledge of his own disposition, convince him that he was not capable of being steadily attached to any one woman in the world, and shame him from persisting any longer in addressing herself.
Chpt 46disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
- He saw how ill he had judged, in expecting to counteract what was wrong in Mrs. Norris by its reverse in himself; clearly saw that he had but increased the evil by teaching them to repress their spirits in his presence so as to make their real disposition unknown to him, and sending them for all their indulgences to a person who had been able to attach them only by the blindness of her affection, and the excess of her praise.
Chpt 48
- He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility, he feared they had never heard from any lips that could profit them.
Chpt 48disposition = temperament (deeper concerns and inclinations)
- That Julia escaped better than Maria was owing, in some measure, to a favourable difference of disposition and circumstance, but in a greater to her having been less the darling of that very aunt, less flattered and less spoilt.
Chpt 48disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
- Mrs. Grant, with a temper to love and be loved, must have gone with some regret from the scenes and people she had been used to; but the same happiness of disposition must in any place, and any society, secure her a great deal to enjoy, and she had again a home to offer Mary; and Mary had had enough of her own friends, enough of vanity, ambition, love, and disappointment in the course of the last half-year, to be in need of the true kindness of her sister's heart, and the rational…
Chpt 48disposition = normal mood and personality
- Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement.
Chpt 48disposition = temperament (normal way of acting and being)
- Her more fearless disposition and happier nerves made everything easy to her there.
Chpt 48 *disposition = temperament (personality)
Definition:
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(disposition as in: a kind disposition) someone's normal mood, personality, or typical way of behaving