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Definition
capable of being understood
- Yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.Chapter 16 (48% in)
- Dorothy, meanwhile, no less struck by your appearance, gazes on you in great agitation, and drops a few unintelligible hints.Chapter 20 (54% in)
- But now—in short, she made herself as miserable as possible for about half an hour, went down when the clock struck five, with a broken heart, and could scarcely give an intelligible answer to Eleanor's inquiry if she was well.Chapter 25 (6% in)
- The carriage was soon announced to be ready; and Catherine, instantly rising, a long and affectionate embrace supplied the place of language in bidding each other adieu; and, as they entered the hall, unable to leave the house without some mention of one whose name had not yet been spoken by either, she paused a moment, and with quivering lips just made it intelligible that she left "her kind remembrance for her absent friend."Chapter 28 (98% in)
There are no more uses of "intelligible" in Northanger Abbey.
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