Both Uses
fluctuate
in
Silas Marner
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- Silas, feeling bound to accept rebuke and admonition as a brotherly office, felt no resentment, but only pain, at his friend's doubts concerning him; and to this was soon added some anxiety at the perception that Sarah's manner towards him began to exhibit a strange fluctuation between an effort at an increased manifestation of regard and involuntary signs of shrinking and dislike.†
Chpt 1.1 *fluctuation = the process of alternately increasing and decreasing in quantity; or the amount of such a change
- Through the remainder of this day Godfrey, with only occasional fluctuations, kept his will bent in the direction of a complete avowal to his father, and he withheld the story of Wildfire's loss till the next morning, that it might serve him as an introduction to heavier matter.†
Chpt 1.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(fluctuate) to alternately increase and decrease in quantity
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)