All 5 Uses of
estimate
in
The House of Mirth
- He was no less conscious than before of what was said of Lily Bart, but he could separate the woman he knew from the vulgar estimate of her.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- How any one could come to such a damned hole as the Riviera—any one with a grain of imagination—with the whole Mediterranean to choose from: but then, if one's estimate of a place depended on the way they broiled a spring chicken!†
Chpt 2.1
- But it was in the quality of his admiration that she read his shrewd estimate of her case.†
Chpt 2.5
- It certainly simplified life to view it as a perpetual adjustment, a play of party politics, in which every concession had its recognized equivalent: Lily's tired mind was fascinated by this escape from fluctuating ethical estimates into a region of concrete weights and measures.†
Chpt 2.7
- Only as much as she had chosen to show him, and measured by the world's estimate, how little that was!†
Chpt 2.14
Definition:
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(estimate) rough calculation or judgment