All 3 Uses of
stature
in
The Fountainhead
- Her diminutive stature was her secret sorrow, but she had learned to find compensations.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- His mother adored him from the moment the doctor pronounced him unfit to survive; it made her grow in spiritual stature—to know the extent of her own magnanimity in her love for so uninspiring an object; the bluer and uglier baby Ellsworth looked, the more passionate grew her love for him.†
Chpt 2.9
- —once, a doctor put the ends of his stethoscope into my ears and let me hear my own heartbeats—it sounded just like this—he said I was a healthy animal and good for many years—for many…years… "I have foisted upon my readers a contemptible blackguard whose spiritual stature is my only excuse.†
Chpt 4.15
Definition:
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(stature) a person's height
or:
a high level of respect gained by impressive achievement