All 3 Uses of
incongruous
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.†
p. 83.9
- It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous fagots were thus bound together that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.†
p. 84.8 *
- Hence, although I had now two characters as well as two appearances, one was wholly evil, and the other was still the old Henry Jekyll, that incongruous compound of whose reformation and improvement I had already learned to despair.†
p. 89.6
Definition:
out of place; or lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness