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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

agrope en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /əˈɡɹoʊp/

Etymology

From a- + grope.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In the act of groping.
    • Life and life and life! agrope in The dusk of death, warm hands, stretched out For swords, proved more life still to hope in. 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Italy and the World:
    • And he saw other things too in her manner: saw how it had adjusted itself to the hidden intricacies of a situation in which, even after Mrs. Fisher's elucidating flashes, he still felt himself agrope. 1905, Edith Wharton, House of Mirth: