Both Uses
reverberate
in
Jane Eyre
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- No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room; it only gave my nerves a shock of which I feel the reverberation to this day.†
p. 25.1 *
- Ferndean is buried, as you see, in a heavy wood, where sound falls dull, and dies unreverberating.†
p. 515.9unreverberating = without continuing effectstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreverberating means not and reverses the meaning of reverberating. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definitions:
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(1)
(reverberate) when something has a continuing effect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)