Both Uses
genial
in
The Age of Innocence
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- Besides their hostess and her sister, they found, in the long chilly drawing-room, only another shawled lady, a genial Vicar who was her husband, a silent lad whom Mrs. Carfry named as her nephew, and a small dark gentleman with lively eyes whom she introduced as his tutor, pronouncing a French name as she did so.†
Chpt 20genial = friendly and good-natured
- She was persuaded that irrepressible passion was the cause of his impatience; and being an ardent admirer of impulsiveness (when it did not lead to the spending of money) she always received him with a genial twinkle of complicity and a play of allusion to which May seemed fortunately impervious.†
Chpt 21 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(genial as in: a genial personality) friendly and good-natured
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)