All 8 Uses of
grave
in
The House of Mirth
- Her voice had dropped to a note of seriousness, and she sat gazing up at him with the troubled gravity of a child.†
Chpt 1.1
- She had turned to gaze on him gravely.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- It was for a moment only, however; for when he leaned nearer and drew down her hands with a gesture less passionate than grave, she turned on him a face softened but not disfigured by emotion, and he said to himself, somewhat cruelly, that even her weeping was an art.†
Chpt 1.6
- Lily laughed, but her laugh faded into gravity under the prolonged implication of Mrs. Fisher's look.†
Chpt 2.2
- They had been seated for some time in the seclusion of a rocky glen above the lake, when she suddenly cut short the culmination of an impassioned period by turning upon him the grave loveliness of her gaze.†
Chpt 2.7
- She shook her head gravely.†
Chpt 2.10
- Her voice had gathered strength, and she looked him gravely in the eyes as she continued.†
Chpt 2.12
- She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer to her than another: there was no centre of early pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner