Both Uses
anecdote
in
The Turn of the Screw
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- They were like the cherubs of the anecdote, who had—morally, at any rate—nothing to whack!†
Chpt All *anecdote = a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
- It made me blush, the next minute, to see in my friend's face how much more unreservedly she had forgiven him than her anecdote struck me as presenting to my own tenderness an occasion for doing.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(anecdote) a short story that is true -- often told for amusement or to make a point
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)