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HERTFORDSHIRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A county in southern England
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)
Holonyms ("Hertfordshire" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Holonyms ("Hertfordshire" is a member of...):
Home Counties (the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded)
Context examples:
He is not at all liked in Hertfordshire.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Caroline decidedly says that none of the party will return into Hertfordshire this winter.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Collins's return into Hertfordshire was no longer a matter of pleasure to Mrs. Bennet.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Without supposing them, from what she saw, to be very seriously in love, their preference of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy; and she resolved to speak to Elizabeth on the subject before she left Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of encouraging such an attachment.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Such was Miss Lucas's scheme; and appearances were so favourable, that when they parted at night, she would have felt almost secure of success if he had not been to leave Hertfordshire so very soon.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Believe me, my dear sir, my gratitude is warmly excited by such affectionate attention; and depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this, and for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The next was in these words: I do not pretend to regret anything I shall leave in Hertfordshire, except your society, my dearest friend; but we will hope, at some future period, to enjoy many returns of that delightful intercourse we have known, and in the meanwhile may lessen the pain of separation by a very frequent and most unreserved correspondence.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was the second week in May, in which the three young ladies set out together from Gracechurch Street for the town of —, in Hertfordshire; and, as they drew near the appointed inn where Mr. Bennet's carriage was to meet them, they quickly perceived, in token of the coachman's punctuality, both Kitty and Lydia looking out of a dining-room up stairs.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But before I am run away with by my feelings on this subject, perhaps it would be advisable for me to state my reasons for marrying—and, moreover, for coming into Hertfordshire with the design of selecting a wife, as I certainly did.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Elizabeth here felt herself called on to say something in vindication of his behaviour to Wickham; and therefore gave them to understand, in as guarded a manner as she could, that by what she had heard from his relations in Kent, his actions were capable of a very different construction; and that his character was by no means so faulty, nor Wickham's so amiable, as they had been considered in Hertfordshire.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
