All 5 Uses of
eradicate
in
Jane Eyre
- But unimpressionable natures are not so soon softened, nor are natural antipathies so readily eradicated.†
p. 266.3 *
- Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.†
p. 391.5
- But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality.'†
p. 433.4
- But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality.'†
p. 433.4
- As his curate, his comrade, all would be right: I would cross oceans with him in that capacity; toil under Eastern suns, in Asian deserts with him in that office; admire and emulate his courage and devotion and vigour; accommodate quietly to his masterhood; smile undisturbed at his ineradicable ambition; discriminate the Christian from the man: profoundly esteem the one, and freely forgive the other.†
p. 470.0ineradicable = not able to be completely destroyed or eliminatedstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in ineradicable means not and reverses the meaning of eradicable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
Definition:
eliminate or destroy completely