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abstract
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Sons and Lovers
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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
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
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:

(1) (abstract as in: abstract thought)
of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
(2) (abstract as in: read the abstract)
a summary; or to summarize -- especially academic writing
(3) (abstract as in: abstract art)
not imitating external reality or the objects of nature
(4) (abstracted as in: abstracted, so didn't notice)
lost in thought; or distracted by thoughts
(5) (abstracted as in: abstracted his wallet)
removed
(6) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)