Both Uses of
apprehend
in
Pride and Prejudice
- …and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance by a situation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.
p. 229.3apprehended = feared
- They agree with me in apprehending that this false step in one daughter will be injurious to the fortunes of all the others; for who, as Lady Catherine herself condescendingly says, will connect themselves with such a family?
p. 282.1 *apprehending = fearing
Definitions:
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(1)
(apprehend as in: apprehend the situation) to understand or perceive (see or become aware of)
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(2)
(apprehend as in: apprehend the criminal) to capture and arrest someone suspected of breaking the law
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(3)
(apprehend as in: apprehend misfortune) fear, or anticipate with worry