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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A county is central England
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)
Meronyms (parts of "Northamptonshire"):
Northampton (the principal city of Northamptonshire)
Naseby (a village in western Northamptonshire)
Holonyms ("Northamptonshire" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Context examples:
As she now sat looking at Betsey, she could not but think particularly of another sister, a very pretty little girl, whom she had left there not much younger when she went into Northamptonshire, who had died a few years afterwards.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
” “Was she as much plagued as herself to get tolerable servants?”—soon led her mind away from Northamptonshire, and fixed it on her own domestic grievances, and the shocking character of all the Portsmouth servants, of whom she believed her own two were the very worst, engrossed her completely.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
When it was proved, however, to have done William no harm, she could allow it to be a kindness, and even reward the owner with a smile when the animal was one minute tendered to his use again; and the next, with the greatest cordiality, and in a manner not to be resisted, made over to his use entirely so long as he remained in Northamptonshire.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He remained steadily inclined to gratify so amiable a feeling; to gratify anybody else who might wish to see Fanny dance, and to give pleasure to the young people in general; and having thought the matter over, and taken his resolution in quiet independence, the result of it appeared the next morning at breakfast, when, after recalling and commending what his nephew had said, he added, I do not like, William, that you should leave Northamptonshire without this indulgence.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Of the rest she saw nothing: nobody seemed to think of her ever going amongst them again, even for a visit, nobody at home seemed to want her; but William determining, soon after her removal, to be a sailor, was invited to spend a week with his sister in Northamptonshire before he went to sea.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
When she comes to know the truth she will, very likely, wish me in Northamptonshire again; for there is a daughter of Mr. Fraser, by a first wife, whom she is wild to get married, and wants Henry to take.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
