Both Uses of
diverge
in
The House of Mirth
- I hear Mrs. Trenor wants to build out a new ball-room, and that divergence from Gus on that point keeps her at Bellomont.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- Mrs. Fisher's unconventionality was, after all, a merely superficial divergence from an inherited social creed, while the manners of the Gormer circle represented their first attempt to formulate such a creed for themselves.†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(diverge) to move apart; or be or become different