Both Uses of
construe
in
The God of Small Things
- While these were qualities that were perfectly acceptable, perhaps even desirable, in Touchables, Vellya Paapen thought that in a Paravan they could (and would, and indeed, should) be construed as insolence.†
Chpt 2 *construed = understood something to have a specific meaning
- Mammachi knew this, but preferred to construe Margaret Kochamma's silence as a tacit acceptance of payment for the favors Mammachi imagined she bestowed on her son.†
Chpt 8construe = understand something to have a specific meaning
Definition:
to interpret (understand) something as have a specific meaning