All 3 Uses
congenial
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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- To Esteban in the shadows the picture of Camila leaning over his brother's hand and whispering into his ear was complete evidence that a new congeniality had formed such as he would never know.†
Chpt 3 *congeniality = agreeableness (friendliness)
- Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamour: he imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together and embracing when they parted, the people who dined together with so many smiles,—you will scarcely believe me, but he imagined that they were extracting from all that congeniality great store of satisfaction.†
Chpt 4
- There was a little delegation from the village of Puerto, and Nina (Goodness 2, Piety 5, Usefulness 10) and others stood with drawn puzzled faces while their little friar was given to the congenial flames.†
Chpt 5congenial = agreeable or compatible
Definitions:
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(1)
(congenial) agreeable or compatible in a positive way -- often in the context of being friendly and sociable
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)