Both Uses of
meager
in
Jane Eyre
- Fearful, however, of losing this first and only opportunity of relieving my grief by imparting it, I, after a disturbed pause, contrived to frame a meagre, though, as far as it went, true response.†
p. 29.4 *meagre = lacking in quantity or qualityunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.
- I drew out my purse; a meagre thing it was.†
p. 259.0
Definitions:
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(1)
(meager) lacking in quantity or quality
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, meager can describe someone as very thin.