Both Uses of
divest
in
Jane Eyre
- His shape, now divested of cloak, I perceived harmonised in squareness with his physiognomy: I suppose it was a good figure in the athletic sense of the term — broad chested and thin flanked, though neither tall nor graceful.†
p. 141.5
- Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature.†
p. 15.8 *
Definition:
separate something from a person or firm -- such as to sell, or take, or remove