All 3 Uses of
abstract
in
Mansfield Park
- She could not abstract her mind five minutes: she was forced to listen; his reading was capital, and her pleasure in good reading extreme.
Chpt 34 (definition 1) *abstract = remove
- Fanny was too well aware of it to have anything to say; and they walked on together some fifty yards in mutual silence and abstraction.
Chpt 35 (definition 2)abstraction = in a state of being lost in thought
- Another short fit of abstraction followed, when, shaking it off, she thus attacked her companion.
Chpt 36 (definition 2) *abstraction = being lost in thought
Definitions:
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(1) (abstracted as in: abstracted his wallet) removed
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(2) (abstracted as in: abstracted, so didn't notice) lost in thought; or distracted by thoughts