The Only Use
interpose
in
Lord of the Flies
(Edited)
- The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance.
p. 16.1interposed = came (were between)
Definitions:
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(1)
(interpose) to insert between other elements; or to interrupt or stop action by others
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)