All 26 Uses of

disposition

in

Pride and Prejudice

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her.
p. 295.8 *

disposition = normal mood or personality

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in anything ridiculous.†
p. 14.1

Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, and ductility of his temper, though no disposition could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied.†
p. 18.3

If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least.†
p. 24.1

"You have only proved by this," cried Elizabeth, "that Mr. Bingley did not do justice to his own disposition.†
p. 48.6

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil—a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.†
p. 57.3

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.†
p. 90.6

I am sorry for her, because, with her disposition, she may not get over it immediately.†
p. 139.2

On being made acquainted with the present Mr. Darcy's treatment of him, she tried to remember some of that gentleman's reputed disposition when quite a lad which might agree with it, and was confident at last that she recollected having heard Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy formerly spoken of as a very proud, ill-natured boy.†
p. 141.3

But amidst your concern for the defects of your nearest relations, and your displeasure at this representation of them, let it give you consolation to consider that, to have conducted yourselves so as to avoid any share of the like censure, is praise no less generally bestowed on you and your elder sister, than it is honorable to the sense and disposition of both.†
p. 193.3

Having never even fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and, from her age and disposition, greater steadiness than most first attachments often boast; and so fervently did she value his remembrance, and prefer him to every other man, that all her good sense, and all her attention to the feelings of her friends, were requisite to check the indulgence of those regrets which must have been injurious to her own health and their tranquillity.†
p. 219.5

She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.†
p. 224.4

There was a something in her countenance which made him listen with an apprehensive and anxious attention, while she added: "When I said that he improved on acquaintance, I did not mean that his mind or his manners were in a state of improvement, but that, from knowing him better, his disposition was better understood."†
p. 226.3

But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on, in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly of their vice.†
p. 228.3

Their parties abroad were less varied than before, and at home she had a mother and sister whose constant repinings at the dullness of everything around them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle; 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. 229.3

Every disposition of the ground was good; and she looked on the whole scene, the river, the trees scattered on its banks and the winding of the valley, as far as she could trace it, with delight.†
p. 236.3

The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feeling; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favor, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced.†
p. 253.2

And it is the more to be lamented, because there is reason to suppose as my dear Charlotte informs me, that this licentiousness of behavior in your daughter has proceeded from a faulty degree of indulgence; though, at the same time, for the consolation of yourself and Mrs. Bennet, I am inclined to think that her own disposition must be naturally bad, or she could not be guilty of such an enormity, at so early an age.†
p. 281.9

They shook hands with great cordiality; and then, till her sister came down, she had to listen to all he had to say of his own happiness, and of Jane's perfections; and in spite of his being a lover, Elizabeth really believed all his expectations of felicity to be rationally founded, because they had for basis the excellent understanding, and super-excellent disposition of Jane, and a general similarity of feeling and taste between her and himself.†
p. 328.9

Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.†
p. 331.3

I knew enough of your disposition to be certain that, had you been absolutely, irrevocably decided against me, you would have acknowledged it to Lady Catherine, frankly and openly.†
p. 347.3

Darcy was not of a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy than felt herself to be so; for, besides the immediate embarrassment, there were other evils before her.†
p. 352.4

Definitions:

(1) (disposition as in: a kind disposition)
someone's normal mood, personality, or typical way of behaving
(2) (disposition as in: disposition of the matter)
the decision or action taken when an issue was settled so that it no longer requires attention
(3) (disposition as in: disposition of the assets)
the giving, selling, or transferring of something to another
(4) (disposition as in: strategic troop disposition)
the arrangement, positioning, or use of things