All 50 Uses of
however
in
Middlemarch
- However, since Miss Brooke had become engaged in a conversation with Mr. Casaubon about the Vaudois clergy, Sir James betook himself to Celia, and talked to her about her sister; spoke of a house in town, and asked whether Miss Brooke disliked London.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- However, he is a tiptop man and may be a bishop—that kind of thing, you know, if Peel stays in.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- "However, the long and the short of it is, that he has asked my permission to make you an offer of marriage—of marriage, you know," said Mr. Brooke, with his explanatory nod.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- But as to pretending to be wise for young people,—no uncle, however much he had travelled in his youth, absorbed the new ideas, and dined with celebrities now deceased, could pretend to judge what sort of marriage would turn out well for a young girl who preferred Casaubon to Chettam.
Chpt 1 (definition 2)however = regardless of how
- In return I can at least offer you an affection hitherto unwasted, and the faithful consecration of a life which, however short in the sequel, has no backward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- However, my dear, I have always said that people should do as they like in these things, up to a certain point.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- However, Casaubon has money enough; I must do him that justice.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- However, I am taken by surprise for once.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- However, if I were a man I should prefer Celia, especially when Dorothea was gone.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- "However," said Mrs. Cadwallader, first to herself and afterwards to her husband, "I throw her over: there was a chance, if she had married Sir James, of her becoming a sane, sensible woman."
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- However, Mr. Casaubon consented to listen and teach for an hour together, like a schoolmaster of little boys, or rather like a lover, to whom a mistress's elementary ignorance and difficulties have a touching fitness.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- However, since Casaubon does not like it, you are all right.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- However, the match is good.
Chpt 1 (definition 1) *
- Here is a mine of truth, which, however vigorously it may be worked, is likely to outlast our coal.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- Doubtless his lot is important in his own eyes; and the chief reason that we think he asks too large a place in our consideration must be our want of room for him, since we refer him to the Divine regard with perfect confidence; nay, it is even held sublime for our neighbor to expect the utmost there, however little he may have got from us.
Chpt 1 (definition 2)however = regardless of how
- Thus in these brief weeks Dorothea's joyous grateful expectation was unbroken, and however her lover might occasionally be conscious of flatness, he could never refer it to any slackening of her affectionate interest.†
Chpt 1 (definition 3)
- However, James will hear nothing against Miss Brooke.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- However, I think he is likely to be first-rate—has studied in Paris, knew Broussais; has ideas, you know—wants to raise the profession.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- Miss Brooke, however, was not again seen by either of these gentlemen under her maiden name.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- To a man under such circumstances, taking a wife is something more than a question of adornment, however highly he may rate this; and Lydgate was disposed to give it the first place among wifely functions.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- Mr. Vincy's sister had made a wealthy match in accepting Mr. Bulstrode, who, however, as a man not born in the town, and altogether of dimly known origin, was considered to have done well in uniting himself with a real Middlemarch family; on the other hand, Mr. Vincy had descended a little, having taken an innkeeper's daughter.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- "However," he went on, accenting the word, as if to dismiss all irrelevance, "what I came here to talk about was a little affair of my young scapegrace, Fred's."
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- Fred was not so happy, however, after he had counted them.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- However naughty you may be to other people, you are good to me.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- There was a general impression, however, that Lydgate was not altogether a common country doctor, and in Middlemarch at that time such an impression was significant of great things being expected from him.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- He went to study in Paris with the determination that when he provincial home again he would settle in some provincial town as a general practitioner, and resist the irrational severance between medical and surgical knowledge in the interest of his own scientific pursuits, as well as of the general advance: he would keep away from the range of London intrigues, jealousies, and social truckling, and win celebrity, however slowly, as Jenner had done, by the independent value of his work.†
Chpt 2 (definition 2)
- Hidden actresses, however, are not so difficult to find as some other hidden facts, and it was not long before Lydgate gathered indications that Laure had taken the route to Lyons.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- Lydgate's remark, however, did not meet the sense of the company.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- It was the oldest church in Middlemarch; the living, however, was but a vicarage worth barely four hundred a-year.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- However, you shall have the monster on your own terms.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- When the General Board of the Infirmary had met, however, and Lydgate had notice that the question of the chaplaincy was thrown on a council of the directors and medical men, to meet on the following Friday, he had a vexed sense that he must make up his mind on this trivial Middlemarch business.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- However it was, he did not distinctly say to himself on which side he would vote; and all the while he was inwardly resenting the subjection which had been forced upon him.†
Chpt 2 (definition 3) *
- However, she is married; I saw her wedding-ring on that wonderful left hand, otherwise I should have thought the sallow Geistlicher was her father.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- However, Dorothea was crying, and if she had been required to state the cause, she could only have done so in some such general words as I have already used: to have been driven to be more particular would have been like trying to give a history of the lights and shadows, for that new real future which was replacing the imaginary drew its material from the endless minutiae by which her view of Mr. Casaubon and her wifely relation, now that she was married to him, was gradually changing…
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- I trust, however, that the time here has not been passed unpleasantly to you.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- However just her indignation might be, her ideal was not to claim justice, but to give tenderness.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- Will, however, having given that annihilating pinch, was rather ashamed, imagining from Dorothea's silence that he had offended her still more; and having also a conscience about plucking the tail-feathers from a benefactor.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- "Certainly, I will promise you," said Will, reddening however.†
Chpt 2 (definition 1)
- However, it's no use saying that.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)however = a word used to connect contrasting ideas as when using though, in spite of that, in contrast, nevertheless, etc.
- However, they did not mind it.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- "However, I'm going," Fred ended, languidly.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- However, you have more sense than most, and you haven't been kept in cotton-wool: there may be no occasion for me to say this, but a father trembles for his daughter, and you are all by yourself here.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- Their effect was not alleviating to poor Fred, who, however, unwilling as he said to believe that he was "in for an illness," rose at his usual easy hour the next morning and went down-stairs meaning to breakfast, but succeeded in nothing but in sitting and shivering by the fire.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- However, Wrench shall know what I think of the matter.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- However, Lydgate was installed as medical attendant on the Vincys, and the event was a subject of general conversation in Middlemarch.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- When Sir James entered the library, however, Mr. Casaubon could make some signs of his usual politeness, and Dorothea, who in the reaction from her first terror had been kneeling and sobbing by his side now rose and herself proposed that some one should ride off for a medical man.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- However, I will tell him about Casaubon.
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- However, it is not my business.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- However, the mistake should go no farther.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
- On the eleventh day, however, Lydgate when leaving Stone Court was requested by Mrs. Vincy to let her husband know that there was a marked change in Mr. Featherstone's health, and that she wished him to come to Stone Court on that day.
Chpt 3 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (however as in: However, complications may...) though (or another expression that connects contrasting ideas)
(Based on idea 1 we might not expect idea 2, but this is a way of saying that even though idea 1 exists, we still have idea 2. Synonyms include in spite of that, despite that, nevertheless, nonetheless, on the other hand, in contrastand but.)
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(2) (however as in: However much she tried...) to whatever degree (regardless of how much; or whatever unspecified amount)
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(3) (however as in: However you do it, get it done!) in whatever way