Both Uses of
inter
in
Wuthering Heights
- The place of Catherine's interment, to the surprise of the villagers, was neither in the chapel under the carved monument of the Lintons, nor yet by the tombs of her own relations, outside.†
p. 122.9 *
- It was done; I stirred up the ashes, and interred them under a shovelful of coals; and she mutely, and with a sense of intense injury, retired to her private apartment.†
p. 166.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(inter as in: inter at the cemetery) burying a dead body
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(2)
(inter as in: inter-city) a hyphenated prefix indicating a relationship between different things
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, inter represents into in a non-standard dialect.