All 7 Uses of
instantaneous
in
Middlemarch
- Mr. Casaubon's words had been quite reasonable, yet they had brought a vague instantaneous sense of aloofness on his part.†
Chpt 1 *instantaneous = immediate (happening with no delay)
- To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.†
Chpt 2instantaneously = immediately (happening with no delay)
- At Fred's last words she felt an instantaneous pang, something like what a mother feels at the imagined sobs or cries of her naughty truant child, which may lose itself and get harm.†
Chpt 3instantaneous = immediate (happening with no delay)
- Lydgate instantaneously stooped to pick up the chain.†
Chpt 3instantaneously = immediately (happening with no delay)
- "Did I?" said Fred, reddening instantaneously.†
Chpt 6
- Hawley, Mr. Toller, Mr. Chichely, and Mr. Hackbutt; but Mr. Hawley's outburst was instantaneous, and left the others behind in silence.†
Chpt 7instantaneous = immediate (happening with no delay)
- Dorothea darted instantaneously from the window; Will followed her, seizing her hand with a spasmodic movement; and so they stood, with their hands clasped, like two children, looking out on the storm, while the thunder gave a tremendous crack and roll above them, and the rain began to pour down.†
Chpt 8instantaneously = immediately (happening with no delay)
Definitions:
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(1)
(instantaneous) immediate (happening instantly with no delay)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In physics, instantaneous can mean at a specific instant (an unmeasurably short time period) -- such as "instantaneous velocity".