All 3 Uses of
commotion
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 *commotion = noisy disturbance
- I had entreated him to keep quite clear of the house till everything was arranged: and, indeed, the bare idea of the commotion, at once sordid and trivial, going on within its walls sufficed to scare him to estrangement.†
p. 452.7
- Mr. Rochester turned mechanically to SEE what the commotion was: but as he SAW nothing, he returned and sighed.†
p. 499.8
Definition:
a disturbance -- typically noisy