All 5 Uses of
accost
in
Jane Eyre
- At this moment I am not disposed to accost her.†
p. 141.9 *accost = approach and speak in a demanding or challenging manner
- The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request: —"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."†
p. 213.7
- I have seen in his face a far different expression from that which hardens it now while she is so vivaciously accosting him; but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manoeuvres; and one had but to accept it — to answer what he asked without pretension, to address him when needful without grimace — and it increased and grew kinder and more genial, and warmed one like a fostering sunbeam.†
p. 217.5accosting = approaching and speaking in a demanding or challenging manner
- I would not accost him yet.†
p. 498.2accost = approach and speak in a demanding or challenging manner
- I had meant to be gay and careless, but the powerlessness of the strong man touched my heart to the quick: still I accosted him with what vivacity I could.†
p. 506.7accosted = approached and spoke in a demanding or challenging manner
Definition:
to approach aggressively or inappropriately