All 9 Uses of
abstract
in
Sons and Lovers
- She managed to find some meaning in his struggling, abstract speeches.†
Chpt 2.7
- The intimacy between them had been kept so abstract, such a matter of the soul, all thought and weary struggle into consciousness, that he saw it only as a platonic friendship.†
Chpt 2.7
- With Miriam he was always on the high plane of abstraction, when his natural fire of love was transmitted into the fine stream of thought.†
Chpt 2.7
- But he must be made abstract first.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- He was naturally so young, and their intimacy was so abstract, he did not know he wanted to crush her on to his breast to ease the ache there.†
Chpt 2.7
- If he could have kissed her in abstract purity he would have done so.
Chpt 2.8 *abstract = a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- In her abstraction she took the ring off her finger, stood it up, and spun it upon the table.†
Chpt 2.10
- "Do you?" replied the other, soft, satirical, abstract.†
Chpt 2.14
- When they retired Dawes seemed abstract, thinking of something.†
Chpt 2.14
Definitions:
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(abstract as in: abstract thought) of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
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(abstract as in: read the abstract) a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing