All 3 Uses of
tentative
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- "Perhaps somebody in the house is in love," she said tentatively.†
Chpt 3 *tentatively = in an unsure or hesitant manner
- That he was a desultory tentative student of something and everything might only have been predicted of him.†
Chpt 1
- There was a momentary pause; it was broken, first, in one little tentative note; then a second voice strengthened it, and a third and a fourth chimed in unison, with words they had learnt at the Sunday-school— Here we suffer grief and pain, Here we meet to part again; In Heaven we part no more.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(tentative as in: said it tentatively) done in a careful or unsure way (indicating a lack of confidence in exactly what will happen)
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(2)
(tentative as in: a tentative plan) subject to change (likely or possibly going to change)