preposter

Updated: June 4, 2025

A few months earlier Boldwood's forgetting his husbandry would have been as preposter- ous an idea as a sailor forgetting he was in a ship. Oak was just thinking that whatever he himself might have suffered from Bathsheba's marriage, here was a man who had suffered more, when Boldwood spoke in a changed voice that of one who yearned to make a confidence and relieve his heart by an outpouring.

Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd