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breach
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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- It would be a breach of faith.†
Chpt 4 *breach = break or penetrate
- Though d'Urberville had declared that this breach of his engagement to-day was the simple backsliding of a believer, Tess's words, as echoed from Angel Clare, had made a deep impression upon him, and continued to do so after he had left her.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(breach) break or failure
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.