Both Uses
stagnate
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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- Mentally she remained in utter stagnation, a condition which the mechanical occupation rather fostered than checked.†
Chpt 5 *stagnation = lack of development or movement
- The drops of logic Tess had let fall into the sea of his enthusiasm served to chill its effervescence to stagnation.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(stagnate) staying still or not developing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)