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capricious
in
Jane Eyre
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- she had a capricious and hasty temper
p. 36.3 *capricious = impulsive and unpredictable
- A reception of finished politeness would probably have confused me: I could not have returned or repaid it by answering grace and elegance on my part; but harsh caprice laid me under no obligation; on the contrary, a decent quiescence, under the freak of manner, gave me the advantage.†
p. 141.9caprice = impulsiveness or unpredictability
- What if a former caprice (a freak very possible to a nature so sudden and headstrong as his) has delivered him into her power, and she now exercises over his actions a secret influence, the result of his own indiscretion, which he cannot shake off, and dare not disregard?†
p. 182.3
- I have suffered a martyrdom from their incompetency and caprice.†
p. 205.5
- For a little while you will perhaps be as you are now, — a very little while; and then you will turn cool; and then you will be capricious; and then you will be stern, and I shall have much ado to please you: but when you get well used to me, you will perhaps like me again, — LIKE me, I say, not LOVE me.†
p. 300.5capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
- Yet are you not capricious, sir?†
p. 300.8
- He said I was a capricious witch, and that he would rather sing another time; but I averred that no time was like the present.†
p. 312.5
- I used to enjoy a chance meeting with you, Jane, at this time: there was a curious hesitation in your manner: you glanced at me with a slight trouble — a hovering doubt: you did not know what my caprice might be — whether I was going to play the master and be stern, or the friend and be benignant.†
p. 362.7caprice = impulsiveness or unpredictability
- She had taken an amiable caprice to me.†
p. 425.4
- You will see what impetus would be given to your efforts and mine by our physical and mental union in marriage: the only union that gives a character of permanent conformity to the destinies and designs of human beings; and, passing over all minor caprices —all trivial difficulties and delicacies of feeling — all scruple about the degree, kind, strength or tenderness of mere personal inclination — you will hasten to enter into that union at once.†
p. 469.7caprices = instances of impulsiveness or unpredictability
Definitions:
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(1)
(capricious) impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)