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Literary notes about suitable (AI summary)

In literature, "suitable" is employed to indicate that something is fitting or appropriate for a particular circumstance. The word often signals that an object, behavior, or setting aligns perfectly with its intended function or context. One passage uses it to describe an ideal partner in a personal regard ([1]), while another employs it to define an appropriate narrative beginning ([2]). It can also denote a response that is exactly in keeping with a given situation ([3]), or a location that meets the specific needs of an event or activity ([4], [5]). Through such varied applications, the term enriches the language by underlining the precise match between quality and context.
  1. I would distinguish between passion and necessity, I would find a suitable mistress and would keep to her.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  2. Wherefore, we must return again and find another suitable beginning, as about the former matters, so also about these.
    — from Timaeus by Plato
  3. I said nothing, which I thought a suitable reply; and he took a pinch of snuff.
    — from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  4. It was only a cavalry skirmish in which they engaged, for the ground was not suitable for a battle on a vaster scale; hence both withdrew.
    — from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 by Cassius Dio Cocceianus
  5. In the mean time I will order transportation, etc.... It would be well if you could have two or three small boats suitable for navigating the Yazoo.
    — from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman

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