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Definition
to return to an undesirable previous condition — especially illness, addiction, or bad behavior
- She was fast relapsing into stupor; nor did her mind again rally: at twelve o'clock that night she died.Chapter 21 (98% in)
- I returned it to her; she received it quietly, and without saying anything she was about to relapse into her former studious mood: again I ventured to disturb her — "Can you tell me what the writing on that stone over the door means?Chapter 5 (82% in)
- He soon stirred; my eye was instantly drawn to his movements; he only took out a morocco pocket-book, thence produced a letter, which he read in silence, folded it, put it back, relapsed into meditation.Chapter 33 (14% in)
- He relapsed again into gloom.Chapter 37 (34% in)
There are no more uses of "relapse" in Jane Eyre.
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