All 6 Uses of
effusion
in
Northanger Abbey
- …William at sea—and all of them more beloved and respected in their different station than any other three beings ever were, Mrs. Allen had no similar information to give, no similar triumphs to press on the unwilling and unbelieving ear of her friend, and was forced to sit and appear to listen to all these maternal effusions, consoling herself, however, with the discovery, which her keen eye soon made, that the lace on Mrs. Thorpe's pelisse was not half so handsome as that on her own.†
Chpt 4
- Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans.†
Chpt 5 *
- "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.†
Chpt 5
- Little as Catherine was in the habit of judging for herself, and unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be, she could not entirely repress a doubt, while she bore with the effusions of his endless conceit, of his being altogether completely agreeable.†
Chpt 9
- Maria's intelligence concluded with a tender effusion of pity for her sister Anne, whom she represented as insupportably cross, from being excluded the party.†
Chpt 15
- The happiness of having such a sister was their first effusion, and the fair ladies mingled in embraces and tears of joy.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(effusion as in: effusions of domestic joy) an enthusiastic expression of feelings or thoughts
or:
something flowing or given off (often a liquid or gas under pressure such as blood or leaking gas)