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Definition
behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner
or:
happening naturally (without planning or external force)
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happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- 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.Chapter 17 (27% in)
- 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!Chapter 17 (68% in)
- 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.Chapter 18 (31% in)
- 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.Chapter 29 (89% in)
There are no more uses of "spontaneous" in Jane Eyre.
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