Both Uses of
specimen
in
Northanger Abbey
- The following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the pump-room one morning, after an acquaintance of eight or nine days, is given as a specimen of their very warm attachment, and of the delicacy, discretion, originality of thought, and literary taste which marked the reasonableness of that attachment.†
Chpt 6 *specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- The manufacture was much improved since that time; he had seen some beautiful specimens when last in town, and had he not been perfectly without vanity of that kind, might have been tempted to order a new set.†
Chpt 22specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
Definition:
an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes