All 4 Uses of
incensed
in
Jane Eyre
- Look wicked, Jane: as you know well how to look: coin one of your wild, shy, provoking smiles; tell me you hate me — tease me, vex me; do anything but move me: I would rather be incensed than saddened.†
p. 325.4incensed = very angered
- Whether he was incensed or surprised, or what, it was not easy to tell: he could command his countenance thoroughly.†
p. 471.3 *
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Here ensued a pause, filled up by the producing and lighting of a cigar; having placed it to his lips and breathed a trail of Havannah incense on the freezing and sunless air, he went on — "I liked bonbons too in those days, Miss Eyre, and I was croquant — (overlook the barbarism) — croquant chocolate comfits, and smoking alternately, watching meantime the equipages that rolled along the fashionable streets towards the neighbouring opera-house, when in an elegant close carriage drawn by a beautiful pair of English horses, and distinctly seen in the brilliant city-night, I recognised the 'voiture' I had given Celine.†
p. 166.2
- Sweet-briar and southernwood, jasmine, pink, and rose have long been yielding their evening sacrifice of incense: this new scent is neither of shrub nor flower; it is — I know it well — it is Mr. Rochester's cigar.†
p. 287.3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(incensed as in: incensed by her insult) very angered
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More commonly, incense refers to seomthing that is slowly burned to create a pleasant smell.