All 4 Uses of
belated
in
The House of Mirth
- But at this point one or two belated passengers from the last station forced their way into the carriage, and Lily had to retreat to her seat.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- To his wife he no longer counted: he had become extinct when he ceased to fulfil his purpose, and she sat at his side with the provisional air of a traveller who waits for a belated train to start.†
Chpt 1.3
- When at length, one afternoon, she put into execution the belated resolve to visit her friend, this sense of shrunken opportunities possessed her with unusual intensity.†
Chpt 2.8
- She had just closed her trunk on the white folds of the Reynolds dress when she heard a tap at her door, and the red fist of the Irish maid-servant thrust in a belated letter.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(belated) after the expected or usual time