Both Uses of
reverberate
in
Jane Eyre
- 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.
Definition:
when something has a continuing effect