All 12 Uses of
relative
in
Jane Eyre
- But are your relatives so very poor?†
Chpt 3 *
- It seems they had come in the carriage with their reverend relative, and had been conducting a rummaging scrutiny of the room upstairs, while he transacted business with the housekeeper, questioned the laundress, and lectured the superintendent.†
Chpt 7
- Not now, but he has had — or, at least, relatives.†
Chpt 13
- What had occurred since, calculated to change his and my relative positions?†
Chpt 17 *
- Sympathies, I believe, exist (for instance, between far-distant, long-absent, wholly estranged relatives asserting, notwithstanding their alienation, the unity of the source to which each traces his origin) whose workings baffle mortal comprehension.†
Chpt 21
- No, sir; I am not on such terms with my relatives as would justify me in asking favours of them — but I shall advertise.†
Chpt 21
- I mused on the funeral day, the coffin, the hearse, the black train of tenants and servants — few was the number of relatives — the gaping vault, the silent church, the solemn service.†
Chpt 22
- There were no groomsmen, no bridesmaids, no relatives to wait for or marshal: none but Mr. Rochester and I. Mrs. Fairfax stood in the hall as we passed.†
Chpt 26
- Her relatives encouraged me; competitors piqued me; she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was.†
Chpt 27
- Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? for you have neither relatives nor acquaintances whom you need fear to offend by living with me?†
Chpt 27
- I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature: I will seek her breast and ask repose.†
Chpt 28
- My uncle I had heard was dead — my only relative; ever since being made aware of his existence, I had cherished the hope of one day seeing him: now, I never should.†
Chpt 33
Definitions:
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(relative as in: they are relatives) connectedin various senses, including:
- a person related by blood or marriage -- as in "The hospital won't let me visit her because I'm not a relative."
- a plant or animal related by origin or grouping -- "The closest relative of the dog is the gray wolf."
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(relative as in: the relative importance) compared with something else (not an absolute value or not complete)