Both Uses of
apathy
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- …notes given them in reticules, by eccentric uncles; and of young ladies who had accidentally met amiable gentlemen of enormous wealth at their uncles' houses, and married them, after short but ardent courtships; and Kate, listening first in apathy, and afterwards in amusement, felt, as they walked home, something of her mother's sanguine complexion gradually awakening in her own bosom, and began to think that her prospects might be brightening, and that better days might be dawning…†
Chpt 19
- his present state of apathy and terror.†
Chpt 38 *
Definition:
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(apathy) lack of interest and enthusiasm