Both Uses of
stagnate
in
Anna Karenina
- The ignorant peasant-women starve the children, and the people stagnate in darkness, and are helpless in the hands of every village clerk, while you have at your disposal a means of helping them, and don't help them because to your mind it's of no importance."†
Part 3
- The complexity of Petersburg, as a rule, had a stimulating effect on him, rousing him out of his Moscow stagnation.
Part 7 *stagnation = lack of development
Definition:
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(stagnate) staying still or not developing