All 7 Uses of
capricious
in
Middlemarch
- Your sex is capricious, you know.†
Chpt 1capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
- Certainly any one remembering the fact might think that Mrs. Vincy had the air of a very handsome good-humored landlady, accustomed to the most capricious orders of gentlemen.†
Chpt 1
- And all this was to have come ... in the shape of an old gentleman's caprice.
Chpt 4 *caprice = impulsive action
- Now Mr. Casaubon had been deprived of that superiority (as anything more than a remembrance) in a sudden, capricious manner.†
Chpt 4capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
- She is ready prey to any man who knows how to play adroitly either on her affectionate ardor or her Quixotic enthusiasm; and a man stands by with that very intention in his mind—a man with no other principle than transient caprice, and who has a personal animosity towards me—I am sure of it—an animosity which is fed by the consciousness of his ingratitude, and which he has constantly vented in ridicule of which I am as well assured as if I had heard it.†
Chpt 4caprice = impulsiveness or unpredictability
- They say Fortune is a woman and capricious.†
Chpt 6capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
- Fred did not enter into formal reasons, which are a very artificial, inexact way of representing the tingling returns of old habit, and the caprices of young blood: but there was lurking in him a prophetic sense that evening, that when he began to play he should also begin to bet—that he should enjoy some punch-drinking, and in general prepare himself for feeling "rather seedy" in the morning.†
Chpt 7caprices = instances of impulsiveness or unpredictability
Definition:
impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior