All 4 Uses of
distinct
in
Persuasion
- How absurd to be resuming the agitation which such an interval had banished into distance and indistinctness!†
Chpt 7
- In a long strip of meadow land, where there was ample space for all, they were thus divided, forming three distinct parties; and to that party of the three which boasted least animation, and least complaisance, Anne necessarily belonged.†
Chpt 10 *
- It was fixed accordingly, that Mrs Clay should be of the party in the carriage; and they had just reached this point, when Anne, as she sat near the window, descried, most decidedly and distinctly, Captain Wentworth walking down the street.†
Chpt 19
- The two ladies continued to talk, to re-urge the same admitted truths, and enforce them with such examples of the ill effect of a contrary practice as had fallen within their observation, but Anne heard nothing distinctly; it was only a buzz of words in her ear, her mind was in confusion.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(distinct) clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate