All 3 Uses of
alternative
in
Pride and Prejudice
- Elizabeth, feeling really anxious, was determined to go to her, though the carriage was not to be had; and as she was no horsewoman, walking was her only alternative.
p. 32.8 *alternative = other possibility
- An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth.†
p. 109.9
- To be sure, it would have been more for the advantage of conversation had Miss Lydia Bennet come upon the town; or, as the happiest alternative, been secluded from the world, in some distant farmhouse.†
p. 293.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(alternative as in: an alternative plan) something available as another possibility
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(2)
(alternative as in: alternative medicine) non-traditional or non-standard
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)