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FRAME OF MIND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A temporary psychological state
Synonyms:
frame of mind; state of mind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("frame of mind" is a kind of...):
temporary state (a state that continues for a limited time)
mental condition; mental state; psychological condition; psychological state ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frame of mind"):
case (a specific state of mind that is temporary)
thinking cap (a state in which one thinks)
Context examples:
My aunt, on the other hand, was in a composed frame of mind, which was a lesson to all of us—to me, I am sure.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!" burst out Jo, who was in an unusually up-lifted frame of mind just then.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Poor, suffering woman! it was too late for her to make now the effort to change her habitual frame of mind: living, she had ever hated me—dying, she must hate me still.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At the best, in her most charitable frame of mind, she considered the statement of his views to be a caprice, an erratic and uncalled-for prank.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I feared that some difference between him and his mother might have led to his being in the frame of mind in which I had found him at the solitary fireside.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was really amazing, for everyone seemed in a heavenly frame of mind, and self-denial was all the fashion.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
All in that region was fire and commotion; the soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Jo was not in a good humor, and the perverse fit returned, but Amy, who had virtuously done her duty, kept her temper and pleased everybody, was in a most angelic frame of mind.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Last January, rid of all mistresses—in a harsh, bitter frame of mind, the result of a useless, roving, lonely life—corroded with disappointment, sourly disposed against all men, and especially against all womankind (for I began to regard the notion of an intellectual, faithful, loving woman as a mere dream), recalled by business, I came back to England.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
