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Definition
feelings of uneasiness — especially about whether it is right to do something
- Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.Book 1 — Miss Brooke (3% in)
- But Mrs. Dunkirk had qualms and yearnings about her daughter, who had long been regarded as lost both to God and her parents.Book 6 — The Widow and Wife (81% in)
There are no more uses of "qualms" in Middlemarch.
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