All 5 Uses
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The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
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- Mr. Goodwood made these detached assertions with dry deliberateness, in his hard, slow American tone, which flung no atmospheric colour over propositions intrinsically crude.†
Chpt 32 *intrinsically = in a manner related to the very nature of something
- Ralph was a clever man; but Ralph had never—to his own sense—been so clever as when he observed, in petto, that under the guise of caring only for intrinsic values Osmond lived exclusively for the world.†
Chpt 39intrinsic = belonging to a thing by its very nature
- And yet, beyond that, she hardly knew what he had—save of course his intrinsic qualities.†
Chpt 47
- Oh, he was intrinsic enough; she never thought of his even looking for artificial aids.†
Chpt 47
- She saw, in the crude light of that revelation which had already become a part of experience and to which the very frailty of the vessel in which it had been offered her only gave an intrinsic price, the dry staring fact that she had been an applied handled hung-up tool, as senseless and convenient as mere shaped wood and iron.†
Chpt 52
Definitions:
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(1)
(intrinsic) belonging naturally or essential to the nature of something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)