All 8 Uses of
distinct
in
The Age of Innocence
- In matters intellectual and artistic Newland Archer felt himself distinctly the superior of these chosen specimens of old New York gentility; he had probably read more, thought more, and even seen a good deal more of the world, than any other man of the number.†
Chpt 1
- Archer was distinctly nervous.†
Chpt 3 *
- He felt a distinct disappointment on learning that she was away; and almost immediately remembered that, only the day before, he had refused an invitation to spend the following Sunday with the Reggie Chiverses at their house on the Hudson, a few miles below Skuytercliff.†
Chpt 14
- Though all these transactions had been widely reported by the Jacksons a sporting minority still clung to the belief that old Catherine would appear in church, and there was a distinct lowering of the temperature when she was found to have been replaced by her daughter-in-law.†
Chpt 19
- They enclosed him in a kind of golden haze, through which the faces about him looked remote and indistinct: he had a feeling that if he spoke to his fellow-travellers they would not understand what he was saying.†
Chpt 25
- She made no answer, and he sat in silence, watching her profile grow indistinct against the snow-streaked dusk beyond the window.†
Chpt 29
- "All over—what do you mean?" he asked in an indistinct stammer.†
Chpt 32
- It was a modern building, without distinctive character, but many-windowed, and pleasantly balconied up its wide cream-coloured front.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(distinct) clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate