All 5 Uses of
relative
in
Mansfield Park
- "There is a great deal of truth in what you say," replied Sir Thomas, "and far be it from me to throw any fanciful impediment in the way of a plan which would be so consistent with the relative situations of each."
Chpt 1 (definition 1)relative = in comparison to each other
- …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 of his disappointment at Ecclesford.
Chpt 19 (definition 2)relative = related to
- He was to go to town as soon as some business relative to Thornton Lacey were completed— perhaps within a fortnight; he talked of going, he loved to talk of it; and when once with her again, Fanny could not doubt the rest.
Chpt 37 (definition 2)
- It had been real business, relative to the renewal of a lease in which the welfare of a large and—he believed—industrious family was at stake.
Chpt 41 (definition 2) *
- As a daughter, he hoped a penitent one, she should be protected by him, and secured in every comfort, and supported by every encouragement to do right, which their relative situations admitted; but farther than that he could not go.
Chpt 48 (definition 1) *relative = in comparison to each other
Definitions:
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(1) (relative as in: the relative importance) compared with something else (not an absolute value or not complete)
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(2) (relative as in: questions relative to the topic) related to