All 4 Uses of
postpone
in
The House of Mirth
- But her confession would have to be postponed; and the chill of the delay settled heavily on her fagged spirit.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- The Dorsets' invitation to go abroad with them had come as an almost miraculous release from crushing difficulties; and her faculty for renewing herself in new scenes, and casting off problems of conduct as easily as the surroundings in which they had arisen, made the mere change from one place to another seem, not merely a postponement, but a solution of her troubles.†
Chpt 2.2
- To give up her apartment, and shrink to the obscurity of a boarding-house, or the provisional hospitality of a bed in Gerty Farish's sitting-room, was an expedient which could only postpone the problem confronting her; and it seemed wiser as well as more agreeable to remain where she was and find some means of earning her living.†
Chpt 2.8
- She liked to leave her room early, and to return to it as late as possible; and she was walking slowly now in order to postpone the detested approach to her doorstep.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(postpone) delay until a later time