All 5 Uses of
rational
in
Wuthering Heights
- I don't know what would have concluded the scene, had there not been one person at hand rather more rational than myself, and more benevolent than my entertainer.†
p. 12.3rational = reasonable
- I wish you would speak rationally.'†
p. 56.5 *
- I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character and acting on the false impressions she cherished.†
p. 109.7rational = reasonable
- Catherine caught and perused it eagerly; then she put a few questions to me concerning the inmates, rational and irrational, of her former home; and gazing towards the hills, murmured in soliloquy: 'I should like to be riding Minny down there!†
p. 217.7
- 'Five minutes ago Hareton seemed a personification of my youth, not a human being; I felt to him in such a variety of ways, that it would have been impossible to have accosted him rationally.†
p. 235.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(rational as in: rational behavior) reasonable, able to think clearly, or based on logic rather than emotion
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, rational numbers in mathematics are numbers that can be expressed as a fraction consisting of only an integer in the numerator and denominator. For example, 1/3 is a rational number while pi is an irrational number.