All 5 Uses of
infinite
in
Washington Square
- To her mind there was nothing of the infinite about Mrs. Penniman; Catherine saw her all at once, as it were, and was not dazzled by the apparition; whereas her father's great faculties seemed, as they stretched away, to lose themselves in a sort of luminous vagueness, which indicated, not that they stopped, but that Catherine's own mind ceased to follow them.†
Chpt 2
- There was infinite, modesty in the poor girl's "we."†
Chpt 5 *
- "Their number is infinite!" said Mrs. Penniman, in a tone which seemed to suggest that this convenient faculty was one of her brightest attributes.†
Chpt 21
- This was close reasoning; but it was commingled with an infinite amount of merely instinctive penitence.†
Chpt 22
- It is infinitely more probable that he got rid of her.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(infinite) unlimited; without boundaries; or too numerous to count