Both Uses
fetid
in
Jane Eyre
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- The unhealthy nature of the site; the quantity and quality of the children's food; the brackish, fetid water used in its preparation; the pupils' wretched clothing and accommodations — all these things were discovered, and the discovery produced a result mortifying to Mr. Brocklehurst, but beneficial to the institution.†
p. 99.5fetid = bad smelling
- All right then; limpid, salubrious: no gush of bilge water had turned it to fetid puddle.†
p. 159.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(fetid) having a bad odor
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)