All 7 Uses
aloof
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The Man of the Forest
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- At length he got down into the pine belt, where the great, gnarled, yellow trees soared aloft, stately, and aloof from one another, and the ground was a brown, odorous, springy mat of pine-needles, level as a floor.†
Chpt 2aloof = socially distant or uninterested
- Helen had never seen a face like that, which at first glance appeared darkly bronzed and hard, and then became clear, cold, aloof, still, intense.†
Chpt 5 *
- About this hunter there began to be something of the very nature of which he spoke—a stillness, aloofness, an unbreakable tranquillity, a cold, clear spirit like that in the mountain air, a physical something not unlike the tamed wildness of his pets or the strength of the pines.†
Chpt 9aloofness = the quality or degree of being socially distant or uninterested
- The dog was matured, of almost stern aloofness, and manifestly not used to people.†
Chpt 10
- For hours then she rode along a shady, fragrant trail, seeing the beauty of color and wildness, hearing the murmur and rush and roar of water, but all the while her mind revolved the sweet and momentous realization which had thrilled her—that the hunter, this strange man of the forest, so deeply versed in nature and so unfamiliar with emotion, aloof and simple and strong like the elements which had developed him, had fallen in love with her and did not know it.†
Chpt 14aloof = socially distant or uninterested
- Now that he had reached maturity, if through his knowledge of nature's law he had come to see the meaning of the strife of men for existence, for place, for possession, and to hold them in contempt, that was no reason why he should keep himself aloof from them, from some work that was needed in an incomprehensible world.†
Chpt 15
- But the wonderful happiness that she had expected to find in the West still held aloof.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(aloof) socially distant or uninterested in something that interests others -- often thinking oneself superior to others
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)