The Only Use of
static
in
The House of Mirth
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- She had fancied at first that it would be easy to draw her aunt into the whirl of her own activities, but there was a static force in Mrs. Peniston against which her niece's efforts spent themselves in vain.†
Chpt 1.3
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More commonly, static can also refer to electrical interference or to an electrical charge that is stationary in an object. More rarely, it can also refer to "complaints or interference".