All 9 Uses of
relative
in
The House of Mirth
- She had died during one of their brief visits to New York, and there Lily at once became the centre of a family council composed of the wealthy relatives whom she had been taught to despise for living like pigs.†
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1)
- Then she sometimes travelled, and Lily's familiarity with foreign customs—deplored as a misfortune by her more conservative relatives—would at least enable her to act as a kind of courier.†
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1) *
- She would be free forever from the shifts, the expedients, the humiliations of the relatively poor.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 2) *
- It's a relative quality, after all.†
Chpt 1.6 (definition 2)
- Another aspect of the same idea had presented itself to her, and she felt that it was beneath her dignity to have her nerves racked by a dependent relative who wore her old clothes.†
Chpt 1.11 (definition 2)
- Chapter 4 The blinds of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room were drawn down against the oppressive June sun, and in the sultry twilight the faces of her assembled relatives took on a fitting shadow of bereavement.†
Chpt 2.4 (definition 1)
- The few relatives who had stayed on, or returned, for the reading of Mrs. Peniston's will, had taken flight again that afternoon to Newport or Long Island; and not one of them had made any proffer of hospitality to Lily.†
Chpt 2.4 (definition 1)
- There was another interval before Mrs. Peniston's lawyer, who was also one of the executors, replied to the effect that, some questions having arisen relative to the interpretation of the will, he and his associates might not be in a position to pay the legacies till the close of the twelvemonth legally allotted for their settlement.†
Chpt 2.4 (definition 2)
- Bound to happen to a good-looking girl with stingy relatives, I suppose; anyhow, they DID happen, and she found the ground prepared for her.†
Chpt 2.7 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (relative as in: they are relatives) connectedin various senses, including:
- a person related by blood or marriage -- as in "The hospital won't let me visit her because I'm not a relative."
- a plant or animal related by origin or grouping -- "The closest relative of the dog is the gray wolf."
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(2) (relative as in: the relative importance) compared with something else (not an absolute value or not complete)