Both Uses of
stagnate
in
A Room of One's Own
- but women ... suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
Chpt 4 *stagnation = lack of development or movement
- She remembered that she had been starved of her proper due of experience—she had been made to stagnate in a parsonage mending stockings when she wanted to wander free over the world.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
staying still or not developing