Both Uses
intelligible
in
Jane Eyre
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- This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear: very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible.†
p. 16.5 *intelligible = capable of being understood
- And in a low voice she read something, of which not one word was intelligible to me; for it was in an unknown tongue — neither French nor Latin.†
p. 382.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(intelligible) capable of being understood
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)