All 4 Uses of
accumulate
in
The House of Mirth
- Lily sat silent, taking the brunt of it quietly, letting it spend itself on her to the last drop of its accumulated falseness; then, without a word, she rose and went down to her cabin.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- If anything came out at all, it would be such a vast unpacking of accumulated moral rags as left him, after his visitor had gone, with the feeling that he must fling open the windows and have his room swept out.†
Chpt 2.3
- The sense of weariness returned with accumulated force, and for a moment she felt that she could walk no farther.†
Chpt 2.13
- In whatever form a slowly-accumulated past lives in the blood—whether in the concrete image of the old house stored with visual memories, or in the conception of the house not built with hands, but made up of inherited passions and loyalties—it has the same power of broadening and deepening the individual existence, of attaching it by mysterious links of kinship to all the mighty sum of human striving.†
Chpt 2.13
Definition:
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(accumulate) to collect or gradually increase