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Wuthering Heights
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- Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, but gave no intimation of ascending; so his master dived down to him, leaving me VIS-A-VIS the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheep-dogs, who shared with her a jealous guardianship over all my movements.†
p. 4.1indistinctly = not clearlystandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indistinctly means not and reverses the meaning of distinctly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- Her position before was sheltered from the light; now, I had a distinct view of her whole figure and countenance.†
p. 6.9 *distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- This time, I remembered I was lying in the oak closet, and I heard distinctly the gusty wind, and the driving of the snow; I heard, also, the fir bough repeat its teasing sound, and ascribed it to the right cause: but it annoyed me so much, that I resolved to silence it, if possible; and, I thought, I rose and endeavoured to unhasp the casement.†
p. 17.3distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- But if you will not mock at me, I'll explain it: I can't do it distinctly; but I'll give you a feeling of how I feel.'†
p. 56.9
- As to her companion, while raising himself with one hand, he had taken her arm with the other; and so inadequate was his stock of gentleness to the requirements of her condition, that on his letting go I saw four distinct impressions left blue in the colourless skin.†
p. 116.1distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- You had distinctly impressed on me the idea that Catherine was the whole joy of your life: I can't imagine how you think of surviving her loss.†
p. 129.1distinctly = in a manner that is clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- Besides, unless I had received a distinct impression of her passionless features, that strange feeling would hardly have been removed.†
p. 209.8distinct = clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- Those two who have left the room are the only objects which retain a distinct material appearance to me; and that appearance causes me pain, amounting to agony.†
p. 235.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(distinct) clear, easily noticed, and/or identifiable as different or separate
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)