All 4 Uses of
inquire
in
A Room of One's Own
- Thus provided, thus confident and enquiring, I set out in the pursuit of truth.†
Chpt 2 *enquiring = asking about or looking intounconventional spelling: This is the more common British spelling. Americans use inquiring more commonly.
- It would be better to draw the curtains; to shut out distractions; to light the lamp; to narrow the enquiry and to ask the historian, who records not opinions but facts, to describe under what conditions women lived, not throughout the ages, but in England, say, in the time of Elizabeth.†
Chpt 3
- And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate, I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what state of mind is most propitious for creative work, because the mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent, like Shakespeare's mind, I conjectured, looking at the book which lay open at ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.†
Chpt 3
- They tell us we mistake our sex and way; Good breeding, fashion, dancing, dressing, play, Are the accomplishments we should desire; To write, or read, or think, or to enquire, Would cloud our beauty, and exhaust our time, And interrupt the conquests of our prime.†
Chpt 4enquire = ask about or look intounconventional spelling: This is the more common British spelling. Americans use inquire more commonly.
Definition:
to ask about or look into something