All 4 Uses of
disposition
in
Washington Square
- Mrs. Penniman was a tall, thin, fair, rather faded woman, with a perfectly amiable disposition, a high standard of gentility, a taste for light literature, and a certain foolish indirectness and obliquity of character.
Chpt 2 (definition 1) *disposition = normal mood and personality
- It was characteristic of Mrs. Penniman that she related this fact, not in the least out of malignity to Catherine, whom she very sufficiently pitied, but simply from a natural disposition to embellish any subject that she touched.†
Chpt 30 (definition 1)
- Her opportunities for doing so were not numerous, but they occurred often enough to test her disposition.†
Chpt 32 (definition 1)
- The first of these dated from ten years back, and consisted of a series of dispositions by which he left the great mass of property to his daughter, with becoming legacies to his two sisters.
Chpt 33 (definition 2) *dispositions = decisions
Definitions:
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(1) (disposition as in: a kind disposition) someone's normal mood, personality, or typical way of behaving
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(2) (disposition as in: disposition of the matter) the decision or action taken when an issue was settled so that it no longer requires attention