All 5 Uses of
disposition
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- You're bringing a strange child into your house and home and you don't know a single thing about him nor what his disposition is like nor what sort of parents he had nor how he's likely to turn out.
p. 7.1disposition = normal mood and personality
- You don't know much about her or her real disposition, I suppose, and there's no guessing how a child like that will turn out.
p. 62.1
- Then Marilla suddenly became aware of an uncomfortable and rebuking consciousness that she felt more humiliation over this than sorrow over the discovery of such a serious defect in Anne's disposition.
p. 64.7
- I understand that child's disposition and what's good for it better than you, Matthew.
p. 146.7 *
- Therefore Marilla conceived it to be her duty to drill Anne into a tranquil uniformity of disposition as impossible and alien to her as to a dancing sunbeam in one of the brook shallows.
p. 174.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(disposition as in: a kind disposition) someone's normal mood, personality, or typical way of behaving
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(2)
(disposition as in: disposition of the matter) the decision or action taken when an issue was settled so that it no longer requires attention
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(3)
(disposition as in: disposition of the assets) the giving, selling, or transferring of something to another
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(4)
(disposition as in: strategic troop disposition) the arrangement, positioning, or use of things