All 5 Uses of
abstract
in
The Age of Innocence
- Some two weeks later, Newland Archer, sitting in abstracted idleness in his private compartment of the office of Letterblair, Lamson and Low, attorneys at law, was summoned by the head of the firm.†
Chpt 11
- But all these abstractions and eliminations made of his mind a rather empty and echoing place, and he supposed that was one of the reasons why the busy animated people on the Beaufort lawn shocked him as if they had been children playing in a grave-yard.†
Chpt 21
- In this state of abstraction he found himself, the following morning, waking to the reality of a stifling September day in New York.†
Chpt 25 *
- Shall I say instead: on behalf of abstract justice?†
Chpt 25 *
- When he thought of Ellen Olenska it was abstractly, serenely, as one might think of some imaginary beloved in a book or a picture: she had become the composite vision of all that he had missed.†
Chpt 34
Definitions:
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(abstract as in: abstract thought) of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
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(abstract as in: read the abstract) a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing