Querulous (The Yellow Wallpaper)
adjective
Pronunciation: Quer – U – Lous
– Habitually complaining
– Fretful, Whining
Context: “I don’t feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I’m getting dreadfully fretful and querulous.”
Source:Â http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/querulous
Dispensation (noun):
(1) a:Â a general state or ordering of things; specifically:Â a system of revealed commands and promises regulating human affairs
b:Â a particular arrangement or provision especially of providence or nature
(2) a: an exemption from a law or from an impediment, vow, or oath
b : a formal authorization (Merriam-Webster)
Found on Page I, Paragraph 3 of âA Rose for Emilyâ–>âAlive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor–he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity.â
I believe the word in this quote means that Colonel Sartorise exempted Miss Emily from paying taxes because her father was once seen as a person of prestige aristocratic upbringings.
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