Both Uses of
trivial
in
Persuasion
- Such, she believed, were his words; but scarcely had she received their sound, than her attention was caught by other sounds immediately behind her, which rendered every thing else trivial.†
Chpt 20 *
- But he was careless and immethodical, like other men, about those things; and when I came to examine his papers, I found it with others still more trivial, from different people scattered here and there, while many letters and memorandums of real importance had been destroyed.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(trivial) of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting