All 3 Uses of
adorn
in
Pride and Prejudice
- I have more than once observed to Lady Catherine, that her charming daughter seemed born to be a duchess, and that the most elevated rank, instead of giving her consequence, would be adorned by her.†
p. 66.9 *adorned = decorated
- Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned.†
p. 235.7
- They crossed it by a simple bridge, in character with the general air of the scene; it was a spot less adorned than any they had yet visited; and the valley, here contracted into a glen, allowed room only for the stream, and a narrow walk amidst the rough coppice-wood which bordered it.†
p. 243.2
Definition:
to decorate -- especially a person