Both Uses
futile
in
Great Expectations
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- But after I had had my new suit on some half an hour, and had gone through an immensity of posturing with Mr. Pumblechook's very limited dressing-glass, in the futile endeavor to see my legs, it seemed to fit me better.†
p. 165.6 *
- To have struggled with him in the street, or to have exacted any lower recompense from him than his heart's best blood, would have been futile and degrading.†
p. 260.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(futile) effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)