All 4 Uses of
spontaneous
in
Jane Eyre
- All in that region was fire and commotion; the soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion.†
p. 194.9 *spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong!†
p. 203.3spontaneously = happening in a natural manner without planning or external force
- She was very showy, but she was not genuine: she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments; but her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature: nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness.†
p. 216.0
- I know all your sisters have done for me since — for I have not been insensible during my seeming torpor — and I owe to their spontaneous, genuine, genial compassion as large a debt as to your evangelical charity.†
p. 399.8spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
Definition:
happening naturally, suddenly, or without outside planning or action