Chapter IV

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading According to Mr. Kegan Paul, he was also left with a blighted existence.

generally approved or compelling recognition

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

(followed by “to”) in agreement with or accordant with

From this reading According to Mr. Kegan Paul, he was also left with a blighted existence.

how long something has existed

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

plural of “age” — how long something has existed

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

in addition

From this reading According to Mr. Kegan Paul, he was also left with a blighted existence.

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it)

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the -ing form of “be”

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the childhood of a boy

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

showing who or what does the action

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

King of France from 1560 to 1574 whose reign was dominated by his mother Catherine de Medicis (1550-1574)

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the time of person's life when they are a child

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

plural of “child” — a young person of either sex

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

past form of “convict” — find or declare guilty

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the time during which someone's life continues

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

the event of dying or departure from life

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

plural of “evidence” — your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the state or fact of existing

From this reading According to Mr. Kegan Paul, he was also left with a blighted existence.

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

preceding all others in time or space or degree

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

grant freedom to; free from confinement

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading WILLIAM GODWIN.

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

plural of “go” — a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

(with “in”) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the lack of knowledge or education

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

plural of “infant” — a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

the act of beginning something new

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

possessive form of “jones” — United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

and nothing more

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

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From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

location near or direction toward the left side; i.e. the side to the north when a person or object faces east

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

produced by a manufacturing process

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

third-person singular of “marry” — take in marriage

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the movement of persons from one country or locality to another

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

a misleading falsehood

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

plural of “misrepresentation” — a misleading falsehood

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

plural of “month” — one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

possessive form of “mother” — a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother)

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

having no living or known mother

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

a form of address for a man

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

a form of address for a married woman

From this reading THE SECOND MRS.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

have ownership or possession of

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

United States feminist (1885-1977)

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

possessive form of “paul” — United States feminist (1885-1977)

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

plural of “point” — a geometric element that has position but no extension

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

third-person singular of “propose” — make a proposal, declare a plan for something

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

past form of “rear” — stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

(usually preceded by “in”) a detail or point

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

rebuffed (by a lover) without warning

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

similarity in appearance or external or superficial details

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites

From this reading THE SECOND MRS.

concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

United States actor (1858-1942)

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading THE SECOND MRS.

belonging to the people or things already mentioned

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

arousing affect

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

the act of using

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

which person or people

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

a married woman; a man's partner in marriage

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading WILLIAM GODWIN.

in the company of; together with

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

hold back; refuse to hand over or share

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797)

From this reading The Blighted Being--Miss Jones’s Disappointment--The Blighted Being goes to Bath--He proposes to Miss Harriet Lee--Is rejected by Mrs. Reveley--Is accepted by Mary Jane Clairmont--Who was she?--Her Children by her first Marriage--Their Ages in 1801--Points of Resemblance in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Jane Clairmont--The Blighted Being marries Mary Jane Clairmont--Mr. Kegan Paul’s serious Misrepresentations of Claire’s Age--The Use made of this Misrepresentation--Mr. Kegan Paul convicted by his own Evidences--Charles Clairmont’s Boyhood--Godwin’s Regard for his second Wife--Misrepresentations touching the second Mrs. Godwin--Childhood of Mary and Claire--Education of Godwin’s Children and Step-children--Charles Clairmont’s Introduction to Free Thought--Godwin’s Care to withhold Mary from Free Thought--She is reared in Ignorance of her Mother’s Story--The Book-shop in Hanway Street--The Godwins of The Polygon--Their Migration to the City--The Godwins of Skinner Street.

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From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.

a late time of life

From this reading By Mary Wollstonecraft’s death, Godwin was left with two motherless infants on his hands,--Fanny Imlay, three years and from four to five months old, and Mary, just ten days old.