All 8 Uses of
deliberate
in
Jane Eyre
- Here, leaning over the banister, I cried out suddenly, and without at all deliberating on my words — "They are not fit to associate with me."
p. 34.2deliberating = thinking
- [In response to the question of what to do to avoid going to hell] I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: "I must keep in good health, and not die."
p. 39.8deliberated = thought
- He deliberately scrutinised each sketch and painting.
p. 146.6 *deliberately = carefully (without rushing)
- "You examine me, Miss Eyre," said he: "do you think me handsome?"
I should, if I had deliberated, have replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow slipped from my tongue before I was aware — "No, sir."p. 154.1 *deliberated = thought about it
- Having indulged a while in this sedative, she raised her bent body, took the pipe from her lips, and while gazing steadily at the fire, said very deliberately — "You are cold; you are sick; and you are silly."
p. 228.3deliberately = slowly with care
- If you think so, you must have a strange opinion of me; you must regard me as a plotting profligate — a base and low rake who has been simulating disinterested love in order to draw you into a snare deliberately laid, and strip you of honour and rob you of self—respect.
p. 346.0deliberately = carefully and patiently
- He turned at last, with measured deliberation.
p. 417.9deliberation = thought
- And the pocket-book was again deliberately produced, opened, sought through; from one of its compartments was extracted a shabby slip of paper, hastily torn off: I recognised in its texture and its stains of ultra-marine, and lake, and vermillion, the ravished margin of the portrait-cover.
p. 440.3deliberately = carefully
Definitions:
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(1)
(deliberate as in: deliberate insult) to do something intentionally (do it on purpose)
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(2)
(deliberate as in: need to deliberate) to think about or discuss -- especially with great care
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(3)
(deliberate as in: a deliberate thinker) done with great care -- often slowly