All 4 Uses of
specimen
in
Jane Eyre
- She had finished her breakfast, so I permitted her to give a specimen of her accomplishments.†
p. 121.4 *specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- Everybody knows you are the most selfish, heartless creature in existence: and I know your spiteful hatred towards me: I have had a specimen of it before in the trick you played me about Lord Edwin Vere: you could not bear me to be raised above you, to have a title, to be received into circles where you dare not show your face, and so you acted the spy and informer, and ruined my prospects for ever.†
p. 272.6
- I watch your career with interest, because I consider you a specimen of a diligent, orderly, energetic woman: not because I deeply compassionate what you have gone through, or what you still suffer.†
p. 432.9
- When all was finished, I thought Moor House as complete a model of bright modest snugness within, as it was, at this season, a specimen of wintry waste and desert dreariness without.†
p. 452.5
Definition:
an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes