All 8 Uses
antipathy
in
Jane Eyre
(Edited)
- John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me.
p. 12.6antipathy = strong dislike
- That eye of hers, that voice stirred every antipathy I had.
p. 44.3
- I had had no communication by letter or message with the outer world: school-rules, school-duties, school-habits and notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and costumes, and preferences, and antipathies — such was what I knew of existence.
p. 101.9 *antipathies = dislikes
- However, when I had brushed my hair very smooth, and put on my black frock — which, Quakerlike as it was, at least had the merit of fitting to a nicety — and adjusted my clean white tucker, I thought I should do respectably enough to appear before Mrs. Fairfax, and that my new pupil would not at least recoil from me with antipathy.
p. 117.6antipathy = strong aversion
- Too often she betrayed this, by the undue vent she gave to a spiteful antipathy she had conceived against little Adele: pushing her away with some contumelious epithet if she happened to approach her; sometimes ordering her from the room, and always treating her with coldness and acrimony.
p. 216.2antipathy = strong dislike
- But unimpressionable natures are not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated.
p. 266.2antipathies = strong dislikes
- "Sir," I interrupted him, "you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady: you speak of her with hate — with vindictive antipathy."
p. 347.6antipathy = strong dislike
- I repressed the deep antipathy I felt.
p. 353.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(antipathy) strong dislike
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)