Both Uses of
meager
in
The Mill on the Floss
- it is not to be expected that he will live in the meagre style of a man who means to be a poor curate all his life;†
Chpt 2.1 *meagre = lacking in quantity or qualityunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.
- Mr. Tulliver and his family must live more meagrely and humbly, but it would only be till the profits of the business had paid off Furley's advances, and that might be while Mr. Tulliver had still a good many years of life before him.†
Chpt 3.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(meager) lacking in quantity or quality
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, meager can describe someone as very thin.