Both Uses
lucrative
in
Middlemarch
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- But it must be admitted that the fixing, which had to come first, was the more difficult task:—what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an "appointment") which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?†
Chpt 6
- In the mean time he had no money or prospects of money; and his practice was not getting more lucrative.†
Chpt 6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(lucrative) profitable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)