Both Uses of
tact
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- He felt that, single-minded and self-sacrificing as his parents were, there yet existed certain latent prejudices of theirs, as middle-class people, which it would require some tact to overcome.†
Chpt 4 *tact = the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
- Tess did not explain very clearly its results, and Izz, who was a girl of tact, began to speak of her own little affair, a phase of which Tess had just witnessed.†
Chpt 6