All 11 Uses
spontaneous
in
Middlemarch
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- All people, young or old (that is, all people in those ante-reform times), would have thought her an interesting object if they had referred the glow in her eyes and cheeks to the newly awakened ordinary images of young love: the illusions of Chloe about Strephon have been sufficiently consecrated in poetry, as the pathetic loveliness of all spontaneous trust ought to be.†
Chpt 1spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- Certainly these men who had so few spontaneous ideas might be very useful members of society under good feminine direction, if they were fortunate in choosing their sisters-in-law!†
Chpt 1 *
- Genius, he held, is necessarily intolerant of fetters: on the one hand it must have the utmost play for its spontaneity; on the other, it may confidently await those messages from the universe which summon it to its peculiar work, only placing itself in an attitude of receptivity towards all sublime chances.†
Chpt 1spontaneity = behavior or action that happens naturally without planning or external force
- That basket held small savings from her more portable food, destined for the children of her poor friends among whom she trotted on fine mornings; fostering and petting all needy creatures being so spontaneous a delight to her, that she regarded it much as if it had been a pleasant vice that she was addicted to.†
Chpt 2spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- On other subjects indeed Mr. Casaubon showed a tenacity of occupation and an eagerness which are usually regarded as the effect of enthusiasm, and Dorothea was anxious to follow this spontaneous direction of his thoughts, instead of being made to feel that she dragged him away from it.†
Chpt 2
- Her most cheerful supposition was that her aunt Bulstrode had interfered in some way to hinder Lydgate's visits: everything was better than a spontaneous indifference in him.†
Chpt 3
- The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.†
Chpt 4
- The thing that she liked, that she spontaneously cared to have, seemed to be always excluded from her life; for if it was only granted and not shared by her husband it might as well have been denied.†
Chpt 5spontaneously = happening in a natural manner without planning or external force
- His belief in these moments of dread was, that if he spontaneously did something right, God would save him from the consequences of wrong-doing.†
Chpt 6
- He had no longer free energy enough for spontaneous research and speculative thinking, but by the bedside of patients, the direct external calls on his judgment and sympathies brought the added impulse needed to draw him out of himself.†
Chpt 7spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- He began spontaneously to consider whether it would be possible to carry out that puerile notion of Rosamond's which had often made him angry, namely, that they should quit Middlemarch without seeing anything beyond that preface.†
Chpt 7spontaneously = happening in a natural manner without planning or external force
Definitions:
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(1)
(spontaneous) happening naturally, suddenly, or without outside planning or action
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)