Both Uses of
passive
in
Mansfield Park
- A week had passed in this way, and no suspicion of it conveyed by her quiet passive manner, when she was found one morning by her cousin Edmund, the youngest of the sons, sitting crying on the attic stairs.†
Chpt 2 *
- The hand which had so pressed hers to his heart! the hand and the heart were alike motionless and passive now!†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(passive) accepting what happens without trying to take control or reacting strongly