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Annotation:
address
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 15
Presentation of self.
Annotation:
affable
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 43
Civil and courteous, irrespective of their poverty.
Annotation:
alacrity
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 10
Quickness, which in her case is directed at pleasing.
Annotation:
animal spirits
Category:
Body
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 9
In Lydia's case the emphasis falls upon "animal." A common phrase of the time (Wordsworth uses it in…
Annotation:
apothecary
Category:
People
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 7
The apothecary, a shop-owner, was a significant cut above the herb-seller, though the apothecary's e…
Annotation:
archly
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 18
Saucily; cleverly.
Annotation:
archness
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 10
Good-humored cleverness; waggishness.
Annotation:
art
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 35
Artful ways of concealment.
Annotation:
asperity
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 13
Roughness; tartness.
Annotation:
assemblies
Category:
Amusements
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 2
Dances; balls. Throughout the 18th century marriage among the gentry evolved from a principally prag…
Annotation:
backgammon
Category:
Amusements
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 14
A board game that involves moves determined by throws of the dice.
Annotation:
backwards
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 30
At the rear and facing out upon the garden.
Annotation:
barouche-box
Category:
Transportation
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 37
An outside seat. The servant, Dawson, is willing to sit outside. Given that Lady Catherine is speaki…
Annotation:
blowsy
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 8
The word encompasses everything from bloated to coarse to rustic, and for hair "disheveled, frowzy, …
Annotation:
Boulanger
Category:
Amusements
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 3
A French dance.
Annotation:
capital
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 29
Exceptionally fine.
Annotation:
capital
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 6
First-rate. The estimate—Lizzy's singing is second-rate—reassures us that Austen is realistic enough…
Annotation:
chagrin
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 37
In Johnson, "ill humour, vexation," but here, as with today's use, tinged with embarrassment.
Annotation:
character
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 35
Here not only who the person is but including his or her public reputation. We've seen that Austen d…
Annotation:
chimney-piece
Category:
Things
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 16
This could be the fireplace's mantelpiece or carved surround, often of marble or other stone. Becaus…
Annotation:
circulating library
Category:
Writing & Reading
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 14
As mentioned earlier, a commercial lending library, often owned by a bookseller or publisher, that r…
Annotation:
coach
Category:
Transportation
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 16
Not a chaise but something on the order of a public stagecoach, for this seats six.
Annotation:
cogent
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 51
Compelling, forceful.
Annotation:
commission
Category:
Military
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 15
He may have accepted after they agreed to his joining, but commissions (officer status) in either th…
Annotation:
complacency
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 6
Pleasure.
Annotation:
complaisance
Category:
Manners & Morals
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 6
The capacity to be pleasing and agreeable, high in Austen's hierarchy of social virtues.
Annotation:
comprehend
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 8
Include.
Annotation:
concerto
Category:
Amusements
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 6
The word refers to the performance, long and ambitious, and not to a piano or violin concerto as we …
Annotation:
condescension
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 28
Collins intends this as a compliment though we take it for what it is, a noblesse oblige issuing fro…
Annotation:
conscious
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 57
Knowing.
Annotation:
conversible
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 16
Pleasant to talk with.
Annotation:
coppice-wood
Category:
Places
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 43
A dense growth of small trees and underbrush.
Annotation:
countenance
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 49
Their support and favor, including the possible willingness to meet with her face to face.
Annotation:
crayons
Category:
Amusements
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 43
Stick or pencil of colored chalk or other material for drawing.
Annotation:
creative eye of fancy
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 41
The fancy "creates" or fantasizes a scene. The fancy is, according to Romantic theory, a subsidiary …
Annotation:
curricle
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 44
Search.
Annotation:
demean myself
Category:
Religion
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 13
Humble himself. He takes pride in this, having persuaded himself to believe groveling is a Christian…
Annotation:
deranged
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 46
Disordered (as in unarranged) or discomposed of mind in Johnson, not demented, though perhaps our wo…
Annotation:
dilatory correspondent
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 48
Delaying, tardy, slow.
Annotation:
directions
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 47
Address.
Annotation:
dirt
Category:
Transportation
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 7
Specifically mud. Dirty weather means wet, with the emphasis upon the roads and lanes becoming pools…
Annotation:
discourses
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 14
Sermons, but he wants to suggest by the word that his work is weightier and more philosophical.
Annotation:
disinterested
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 22
Having no selfish or personal interest or gain. Here the word, important to Austen, is more subtle. …
Annotation:
disinterested
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 15
Acting without thought of any personal gain.
Annotation:
dismission
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 20
By 1815 this spelling is obsolete and been replaced by "dismissal," but Collins, always the pedant, …
Annotation:
draughts
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 7
Medicines in liquid form or powders to be mixed with a liquid.
Annotation:
ductility
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 4
Flexibility, pliability; he is easily led. He's in this the opposite of Darcy. Are we to assume Darc…
Annotation:
earl
Category:
Class
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 33
Among the peerage an earl ranks below a duke and a marquess and above a viscount and a baron.
Annotation:
eclat
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 18
Brilliance; smartness.
Annotation:
ensigncy
Category:
Military
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Pride and Prejudice
(in Context)
| Author:
Jane Austen
| Ch:
Chapter 50
The lowest commissioned rank. The ensign was the young man entrusted with bearing the flag or insign…
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