"Umm...I think it was a vocabulary word. Hebedobimable?"
She chuckles heartily. "I believe the word you want is hebdomadal."
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"A little solace came at tea-time, in the shape of a double ration of bread - a whole, instead of a half, slice - with the delicious addition of a thin scrape of butter: it was the hebdomadal treat to which we all looked forward from Sabbath to Sabbath" (Bronte 61).
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"Hebdomadal means a weekly event, or something that occurs every seven days," she says matter-of-factly, "Jane is saying that once a week, the students at Lowood were given more bread and butter than usual."
"But how would you ever use it in every-day language?" The word seems too archaic for modern language.
"Easy! - 'The Jane Eyre Journal is a hebdomadal publication.'"
She pours some more tea.
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Signet Classics, 2008. Print.
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