All 6 Uses of
appreciate
in
The House of Mirth
- Some of the volumes had the ripe tints of good tooling and old morocco, and her eyes lingered on them caressingly, not with the appreciation of the expert, but with the pleasure in agreeable tones and textures that was one of her inmost susceptibilities.†
Chpt 1.1
- Lily received this with fresh appreciation; his nonsense was like the bubbling of her inner mood.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- 'My God, Mrs. Fisher, if I could get Paul Morpeth to paint her like that, the picture'd appreciate a hundred per cent in ten years.'†
Chpt 1.14
- The renewed habit of luxury—the daily waking to an assured absence of care and presence of material ease—gradually blunted her appreciation of these values, and left her more conscious of the void they could not fill.†
Chpt 2.5
- If Morpeth, whose social indolence was as great as his artistic activity, had abandoned himself to the easy current of the Gormer existence, where the minor exactions of politeness were unknown or ignored, and a man could either break his engagements, or keep them in a painting-jacket and slippers, he still preserved his sense of differences, and his appreciation of graces he had no time to cultivate.†
Chpt 2.5
- Then, realizing that this answer contained a germ of injustice, she added, even more kindly: "Not that I don't appreciate your kindness—that I'm not grateful for it.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(appreciate as in: We hope our home will appreciate) to increase in value