All 3 Uses of
breach
in
Pride and Prejudice
- "Dear Sir,— "The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honored father always gave me much uneasiness, and since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequently wished to heal the breach; but for some time I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be at variance.†
p. 61.6breach = break or penetrate
- She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavored to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.†
p. 228.9
- Too much, I am afraid; for what becomes of the moral, if our comfort springs from a breach of promise?†
p. 360.7 *
Definition:
break -- as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall