Both Uses of
inexplicable
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Lest you should think it showed a revolting insensibility in Tom that he felt any new anger toward Maggie for this uncalled-for and, to him, inexplicable caress, I must tell you that he had his glass of cowslip wine in his hand, and that she jerked him so as to make him spill half of it.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- Is it an inexplicable thing that a girl should enjoy her lover's society the more for the presence of a third person, and be without the slightest spasm of jealousy that the third person had the conversation habitually directed to her?†
Chpt 6.6
Definition:
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(inexplicable) incapable of being explained or accounted for