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Annotation:
a competency
Category:
Money
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXI
What is no more than sufficient by way of land and/or income to maintain one as a respectable gentle…
Annotation:
a parterre.”
Category:
Things
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXIV
A parterre, as opposed to the earlier use, here means that part of a theater's main floor before the…
Annotation:
a pollard willow
Category:
Things
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XII
A tree whose upper trunk and branches have been pruned to reduce the tree's size.
Annotation:
a purse or a coronet.”
Category:
Writing & Reading
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXV
Two figures of speech or tropes known in rhetoric as a synechdoche, which is when a part of a thing …
Annotation:
a sort of car,
Category:
Things
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XI
A "car," from carriage and chariot, refers to any wheeled vehicle. Brontë in Chapter XXII distinguis…
Annotation:
a sovereign
Category:
Money
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXI
Ten shillings or half a £.
Annotation:
Abigail.
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter II
Lady's maid or female servant.
Annotation:
abigails,
Category:
People
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XVII
Ladies' maids, female servants.
Annotation:
accommodated,
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XI
Self-possessed.
Annotation:
accost
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XIII
Meaning here "greet her."
Annotation:
acrid,
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXI
Bitter.
Annotation:
acumen
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXIX
Sharpness, penetration of insight. Jane a few paragraphs before described St. John's focused, pierci…
Annotation:
adventitious,
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XIV
Extrinsic or accidental; here qualities he might have acquired from the culture or from experience.
Annotation:
aërial
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XII
She's referring to atmospheric perspective, which is our sense of the distance from us of an object …
Annotation:
agate,
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXVIII
On the way; afoot.
Annotation:
agent
Category:
People
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XV
The manager of the estate, or bailiff, just below the master in terms of authority.
Annotation:
Aire?
Category:
Things
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XI
According to Cassell's dictionary, among the meanings of French aire other than area or space (of a …
Annotation:
album.
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXI
A book, something like a scrapbook, in which a woman collected poetry, sketches, etc. that she'd don…
Annotation:
amenable
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XX
Liable to, answerable to.
Annotation:
amity:
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXI
Friendliness.
Annotation:
an apothecary,
Category:
Body
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter III
The chief distinction is that a physician trained at a medical college, while an apothecary, who cou…
Annotation:
anathematised race
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XVII
Accursed. Whether the phrase is Mrs. Dent's or Jane's, it perpetuates the notion of the governess as…
Annotation:
animadversions
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter VI
Criticisms.
Annotation:
animal spirits
Category:
Body
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXX
Search will yield a more complete explanation but a succinct one is in Roy Porter's Madness: "superf…
Annotation:
apoplectic attack.”
Category:
Body
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXI
Stroke.
Annotation:
appanage
Category:
Custom & Law
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XVII
Specifically, "the provision made for the maintenance of the younger children of kings, princes" (OE…
Annotation:
Approach
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XIII
Bring the table closer.
Annotation:
approbation;
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter VIII
Approval.
Annotation:
ascetic
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXI
Devoted to a regimen of denial, especially of bodily pleasures; abstinent. She is the extreme extens…
Annotation:
asperity,
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXIV
Tartness.
Annotation:
assiduously
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXXII
Diligently, unflaggingly.
Annotation:
assiduously
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXI
Diligent and constant.
Annotation:
Au reste,
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XVII
Besides; anyway.
Annotation:
barrister,
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter X
(Search.)
Annotation:
bathos
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXIV
Lowest depth.
Annotation:
beck
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter IX
Brook, stream.
Annotation:
belated
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XII
Overtaken by darkness.
Annotation:
benignant
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter V
Kindly.
Annotation:
benignant.
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXVII
Kindly, benevolent.
Annotation:
besotted,
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXXIV
"Intellectually or morally stupefied or blinded" (OED).
Annotation:
blackaviced
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XIX
Swarthy; also "blackavised," from black visage.
Annotation:
blond
Category:
Things
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXV
"A silk lace of two threads, twisted and formed in hexagonal meshes; orig. of the colour of raw silk…
Annotation:
Bois de Boulogne.
Category:
Places
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XV
Paris's extensive, highly-wooded park.
Annotation:
boite!
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XIV
Box.
Annotation:
boudoir,
Category:
Things
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XI
This is a small, elegantly furnished room to which a woman may retire for solitude or to receive int…
Annotation:
bourne
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter II
Destination. Technically a boundary but often meaning a destination on the other side of the boundar…
Annotation:
brief
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XVI
Of few words, laconic.
Annotation:
brimstone;
Category:
Things
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter IV
Usually sulphur, which adds to the noxious odor of Hell.
Annotation:
brownie.”
Category:
Gender
| Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XXXVII
"A benevolent spirit or goblin, of shaggy appearance, supposed to haunt old houses, esp. farmhouses,…
Annotation:
cachinnation;
Type:
Glossary Word
| Title:
Jane Eyre
(in Context)
| Author:
Charlotte Brontë
| Ch:
Chapter XI
"Loud or immoderate laughter" (OED).
