Both Uses of
refrain
in
The Mill on the Floss
- I only refrained from destroying your confidence in your own second-sight.†
Chpt 6.2 *refrained = avoided or resisted (doing something)
- Mr. Rappit, the hair-dresser, with his well-anointed coronal locks tending wavily upward, like the simulated pyramid of flame on a monumental urn, seemed to her at that moment the most formidable of her contemporaries, into whose street at St. Ogg's she would carefully refrain from entering through the rest of her life.†
Chpt 1.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(refrain as in: a repeated refrain) something repeated regularlyespecially:
- lines repeated after each verse of a song
- a phrase or idea often repeated by someone or within a poem
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(2)
(refrain as in: refrain from laughing) avoid or resist doing something
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus