All 8 Uses of
dismay
in
Jane Eyre
- For nearly three months, I had never been called to Mrs. Reed's presence; restricted so long to the nursery, the breakfast, dining, and drawing-rooms were become for me awful regions, on which it dismayed me to intrude.†
p. 38.4
- The refectory was a great, low-ceiled, gloomy room; on two long tables smoked basins of something hot, which, however, to my dismay, sent forth an odour far from inviting.†
p. 54.8dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
- I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c.†
p. 73.7 *
- of which, however, I, to my dismay (for I was beginning to be hungry) discerned only a very small portion: Miss Temple discerned it too.†
p. 85.8dismay = sadness, disappointment, or worry
- It was evident that in their former intercourse, the passive disposition of the one had been habitually influenced by the active energy of the other: whence then had arisen Mr. Rochester's dismay when he heard of Mr. Mason's arrival?†
p. 244.4
- I gazed on it with gloom and pain: nothing soft, nothing sweet, nothing pitying, or hopeful, or subduing did it inspire; only a grating anguish for HER woes — not MY loss — and a sombre tearless dismay at the fearfulness of death in such a form.†
p. 276.9
- I was weakly dismayed at the ignorance, the poverty, the coarseness of all I heard and saw round me.†
p. 414.2
- I felt cold and dismayed: my worst fears then were probably true: he had in all probability left England and rushed in reckless desperation to some former haunt on the Continent.†
p. 439.9
Definition:
to feel sadness, disappointment, or worry -- typically in response to something surprising