All 7 Uses of
diffuse
in
The House of Mirth
- Mrs. George Dorset, regardless of the mild efforts of a traveller with a carpet-bag, who was doing his best to make room for her by getting out of the train, stood in the middle of the aisle, diffusing about her that general sense of exasperation which a pretty woman on her travels not infrequently creates.†
Chpt 1.2
- She liked to think of her beauty as a power for good, as giving her the opportunity to attain a position where she should make her influence felt in the vague diffusion of refinement and good taste.†
Chpt 1.3
- In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the glitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the brightness without dulling it.†
Chpt 1.6
- She could not figure herself as anywhere but in a drawing-room, diffusing elegance as a flower sheds perfume.†
Chpt 1.9
- She paused again, with her eyes on Lily, and then continued, in a tone of diffuse narrative: "When we was at the Benedick I had charge of some of the gentlemen's rooms; leastways, I swep'†
Chpt 1.9
- The whole situation's a little mixed, as I see it—but there used to be an aunt somewhere, a diffuse and innocent person, who was great at bridging over chasms she didn't see ….†
Chpt 2.1
Definition:
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(diffuse) to spread; or to soften or calm
or:
to be spread out (not concentrated) -- sometimes implying a lack of organization