All 3 Uses of
apprise
in
Jane Eyre
- ; the promise pledged by Mr. Brocklehurst to apprise Miss Temple and the teachers of my vicious nature.†
p. 73.7 *apprise = inform
- My father and brother had not made my marriage known to their acquaintance; because, in the very first letter I wrote to apprise them of the union — having already begun to experience extreme disgust of its consequences, and, from the family character and constitution, seeing a hideous future opening to me — I added an urgent charge to keep it secret: and very soon the infamous conduct of the wife my father had selected for me was such as to make him blush to own her as his daughter-in-law.†
p. 356.5
- "But I apprised you that I was a hard man," said he, "difficult to persuade."†
p. 443.0apprised = informed
Definition:
inform (somebody) of something