All 8 Uses of
probation
in
Arrowsmith
- Like all males, he hated to confess ignorance by asking directions, but grudgingly he stopped at the door of a bedroom in which a probationer nurse was scrubbing the floor.†
Chpt 6 *
- She was a smallish and slender probationer, muffled in a harsh blue denim dress, an enormous white apron, and a turban bound about her head with an elastic—a uniform as grubby as her pail of scrubwater.†
Chpt 6
- "I am Dr. Arrowsmith," he snorted, "and I've been informed that even probationers learn that the first duty of a nurse is to stand when addressing doctors!†
Chpt 6
- He was an eminent scientist, and it was outrageous that he should have to endure impudence from a probationer—a singularly vulgar probationer, a thin and slangy young woman apparently from the West.†
Chpt 6
- He was an eminent scientist, and it was outrageous that he should have to endure impudence from a probationer—a singularly vulgar probationer, a thin and slangy young woman apparently from the West.†
Chpt 6
- This is no time to be calling up a probationer!†
Chpt 6
- "Why—gosh—I'll 'phone her—darn' nice of you to ask us—" It was not till melancholy dusk, when Leora had accepted and promised to bring with her a probationer-nurse named Nelly Byers, that Martin began to brood: "Wonder if he did have a headache last night?†
Chpt 7
- The police sergeant and the newest probationer patrolman sprang together, and together they mumbled, "All right, Doc."†
Chpt 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(probation) a period of time when a person is being tested or watched to see if they meet certain expectations or follow rules
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In archaic literature, probation can be used to mean "proof" or "demonstration."