All 3 Uses of
breach
in
Jane Eyre
- Miss Ingram rose solemnly: "I go first," she said, in a tone which might have befitted the leader of a forlorn hope, mounting a breach in the van of his men.†
p. 224.5 *breach = break or penetrate
- Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach?†
p. 365.0
- I replied "There is no dishonour, no breach of promise, no desertion in the case.†
p. 477.0
Definitions:
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(1)
(breach) break -- as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.