All 17 Uses of
grave
in
A Room With A View
- Gravely displeased, he turned to go.†
Chpt 1gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- "I can't think," said Lucy gravely.†
Chpt 7
- She smiled gravely.†
Chpt 9
- "I must go," she said gravely.†
Chpt 10
- A grave voice replied, "Hullo!"
Chpt 12 *grave = serious and solemn
- George attended gravely, assenting or dissenting with slight but determined gestures that were as inexplicable as the motions of the tree-tops above their heads.†
Chpt 12gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- Then his words rose gravely over hers: "You cannot live with Vyse.†
Chpt 16
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Some of the people can only see the empty grave, not the saint, whoever he is, going up.†
Chpt 2
- Her two companions looked grave.†
Chpt 3
- "It is indeed," replied the girl, with a gravity that sounded sympathetic.†
Chpt 5
- Persephone, who spends half her life in the grave—she could interpret it also.†
Chpt 7
- The faults of Mary—I forget the faults of Mary, but they are very grave.†
Chpt 8
- "She has none," said the young man, with grave sincerity.†
Chpt 8
- I want to invoke every kind of blessing on them, grave and gay, great and small.†
Chpt 8
- At last she spoke, and with fitting gravity.†
Chpt 9
- It broke; it was resumed broken, not marching once from the cradle to the grave.†
Chpt 11
- Mrs. Honeychurch, with more gravity than usual, and with more feeling than she usually permitted herself, replied: "This isn't very kind of you two.†
Chpt 13 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
Better known meanings of grave and gravity:Less common meanings of grave:- grave -- a place where a dead body is buried
- gravity -- in the sense of physics to refer to the force of attraction between all masses in the universe--especially the force that causes things to fall toward the earth
- death -- as in "A message from beyond the grave."
- describing a color as dark
- to sculpt with a chisel
- to clean and coat the bottom of a wooden ship with pitch
- grave accent -- a punctuation mark (`) that is used in some non-English languages, and that is placed over some letters of the alphabet to tell how they are pronounced.
- grave musical direction -- in a slow and solemn manner