All 6 Uses
immune
in
The Waves, by Virginia Woolf
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- There is, then, a world immune from change.†
*immune = not in danger of suffering from something OR relating to disease resistance
- There is, then, a world immune from change.†
- 'They are immune,' said Rhoda, 'from picking fingers and searching eyes.†
- This freedom, this immunity, seemed then a conquest, and stirred in me such exaltation that I sometimes go there, even now, to bring back exaltation and Percival.†
immunity = the state of not being in danger of suffering from something
- It lies deep, tideless, immune, now that he is dead, the man I called "Bernard", the man who kept a book in his pocket in which he made notes—phrases for the moon, notes of features; how people looked, turned, dropped their cigarette ends; under B, butterfly powder, under D, ways of naming death.†
immune = not in danger of suffering from something OR relating to disease resistance
- Once more, I who had thought myself immune, who had said, "Now I am rid of all that," find that the wave has tumbled me over, head over heels, scattering my possessions, leaving me to collect, to assemble, to heap together, summon my forces, rise and confront the enemy.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(immune) not in danger of being affected by something -- especially a disease
or:
relating to disease resistance - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)