All 10 Uses
vocation
in
Middlemarch
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- After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not?†
Chpt 1 *vocation = a particular type of job
- But the moment of vocation had come, and before he got down from his chair, the world was made new to him by a presentiment of endless processes filling the vast spaces planked out of his sight by that wordy ignorance which he had supposed to be knowledge.†
Chpt 2
- For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.†
Chpt 2vocations = types of jobs
- Lydgate was more surprised at the openness of this talk than at its implied meaning—that the Vicar felt himself not altogether in the right vocation.†
Chpt 2vocation = a particular type of job
- I believe devoutly in a natural difference of vocation.†
Chpt 2
- I wonder what your vocation will turn out to be: perhaps you will be a poet?†
Chpt 2
- It is a physiognomy seen in all vocations, but perhaps it has never been more powerful over the youth of England than in a judge of horses.†
Chpt 3vocations = types of jobs
- He says that he could turn his mind to doing his best in that vocation, on one condition.†
Chpt 5vocation = a particular type of job
- And surely among all men whose vocation requires them to exhibit their powers of speech, the happiest is a prosperous provincial auctioneer keenly alive to his own jokes and sensible of his encyclopedic knowledge.†
Chpt 6
- Again he felt himself thinking of the ministry as possibly his vocation, and inclined towards missionary labor.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(vocation) a particular type of job
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)