Both Uses of
mediocrity
in
The Mill on the Floss
- I might get some power and distinction by mere mediocrity, as they do; at least I should get those middling satisfactions which make men contented to do without great ones.†
Chpt 5.3 *
- I told you long ago that I had never been resigned even to the mediocrity of my powers; how could I be resigned to the loss of the one thing which had ever come to me on earth with the promise of such deep joy as would give a new and blessed meaning to the foregoing pain,—the promise of another self that would lift my aching affection into the divine rapture of an ever-springing, ever-satisfied want?†
Chpt 7.3
Definition:
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(mediocrity) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding