"As a man sows, so let him reap." This is a verse from the Bible, Galatians 6:7, meaning that actions determine fate.
three-volume novels Lending libraries circulated novels in three parts so that three different readers could be reading at the same time. This practice ended in the late 1800s.
Mudie a lending library.
egeria chastity. Egeri, a nymph, gave wise laws to Numa Pompilius of Rome that were used for the vestal virgins.
Evensong a Sunday evening religious service.
womanthrope a humorous word made up by Miss Prism for a person who hates women.
sententiously full of, or fond of using, maxims, proverbs and so on, especially in a way that is ponderously trite and moralizing.
the Primitive Church the pre-Reformation Catholic Church, whose priest remained celibate.
canonical practice church law.
