All 4 Uses
stagnate
in
Jane Eyre
(Edited)
- ...she has sent her here to be healed, even as the Jews of old sent their diseased to the troubled pool of Bethesda; and, teachers, superintendent, I beg of you not to allow the waters to stagnate round her.
p. 79.7stagnate = be inactive
- Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
p. 130.1 *stagnation = lack of development
- I did not like re-entering Thornfield. To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation;
p. 137.2stagnation = a lack of development
- Well may he eschew the calm of domestic life; it is not his element: there his faculties stagnate — they cannot develop or appear to advantage.
p. 454.1stagnate = do not develop
Definitions:
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(1)
(stagnate) staying still or not developing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)