All 26 Uses of
acquaint
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Mrs. Dashwood now took pains to get acquainted with him.†
Chpt 3
- About a mile and a half from the cottage, along the narrow winding valley of Allenham, which issued from that of Barton, as formerly described, the girls had, in one of their earliest walks, discovered an ancient respectable looking mansion which, by reminding them a little of Norland, interested their imagination and made them wish to be better acquainted with it.†
Chpt 9
- Upon my word, I am not acquainted with the minutiae of her principles.†
Chpt 11
- I have not known him long indeed, but I am much better acquainted with him, than I am with any other creature in the world, except yourself and mama.†
Chpt 12
- Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.†
Chpt 12
- She began by inquiring if they saw much of Mr. Willoughby at Cleveland, and whether they were intimately acquainted with him.†
Chpt 20
- Oh! yes, extremely well; that is, I do not believe many people are acquainted with him, because Combe Magna is so far off; but they all think him extremely agreeable I assure you.†
Chpt 20
- "I am so glad we are got acquainted at last," continued Charlotte.†
Chpt 20
- You have been long acquainted with Colonel Brandon, have not you?†
Chpt 20
- —They came from Exeter, well provided with admiration for the use of Sir John Middleton, his family, and all his relations, and no niggardly proportion was now dealt out to his fair cousins, whom they declared to be the most beautiful, elegant, accomplished, and agreeable girls they had ever beheld, and with whom they were particularly anxious to be better acquainted.†
Chpt 21
- — And to be better acquainted therefore, Elinor soon found was their inevitable lot, for as Sir John was entirely on the side of the Miss Steeles, their party would be too strong for opposition, and that kind of intimacy must be submitted to, which consists of sitting an hour or two together in the same room almost every day.†
Chpt 21
- To do him justice, he did every thing in his power to promote their unreserve, by making the Miss Steeles acquainted with whatever he knew or supposed of his cousins' situations in the most delicate particulars,—and Elinor had not seen them more than twice, before the eldest of them wished her joy on her sister's having been so lucky as to make a conquest of a very smart beau since she came to Barton.†
Chpt 21
- How came they acquainted?†
Chpt 21
- "You will think my question an odd one, I dare say," said Lucy to her one day, as they were walking together from the park to the cottage—"but pray, are you personally acquainted with your sister-in-law's mother, Mrs. Ferrars?"†
Chpt 22
- Are you acquainted with Mr. Robert Ferrars?
Chpt 22 *acquainted = familiar
- "I did not know," said she, "that you were even acquainted till the other day."†
Chpt 22
- You must at least have felt that my being acquainted with it could not add to its safety.†
Chpt 22
- That Marianne, fastidious as she was, thoroughly acquainted with Mrs. Jennings' manners, and invariably disgusted by them, should overlook every inconvenience of that kind, should disregard whatever must be most wounding to her irritable feelings, in her pursuit of one object, was such a proof, so strong, so full, of the importance of that object to her, as Elinor, in spite of all that had passed, was not prepared to witness.†
Chpt 25
- It is very right that you SHOULD go to town; I would have every young woman of your condition in life acquainted with the manners and amusements of London.†
Chpt 25
- She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been acquainted with him at all.†
Chpt 32
- No time was to be lost in undeceiving her, in making her acquainted with the real truth, and in endeavouring to bring her to hear it talked of by others, without betraying that she felt any uneasiness for her sister, or any resentment against Edward.†
Chpt 37
- He is not a young man with whom one can be intimately acquainted in a short time, but I have seen enough of him to wish him well for his own sake, and as a friend of yours, I wish it still more.†
Chpt 39
- She had not seen him before since his engagement became public, and therefore not since his knowing her to be acquainted with it; which, with the consciousness of what she had been thinking of, and what she had to tell him, made her feel particularly uncomfortable for some minutes.†
Chpt 40
- I, you may well believe, could talk of nothing but my child;—he could not conceal his distress; I saw that it equalled my own, and he perhaps, thinking that mere friendship, as the world now goes, would not justify so warm a sympathy—or rather, not thinking at all, I suppose—giving way to irresistible feelings, made me acquainted with his earnest, tender, constant, affection for Marianne.†
Chpt 45
- —Delaford,—that place in which so much conspired to give her an interest; which she wished to be acquainted with, and yet desired to avoid.†
Chpt 48
- Edward heard with pleasure of Colonel Brandon's being expected at the Cottage, as he really wished not only to be better acquainted with him, but to have an opportunity of convincing him that he no longer resented his giving him the living of Delaford—"Which, at present," said he, "after thanks so ungraciously delivered as mine were on the occasion, he must think I have never forgiven him for offering."†
Chpt 49
Definition:
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(acquaint) to cause to know; or to cause to be familiar with