stagnation

We now have the worst of both worldsönot just inflation on the one side or stagnation on the other, but both of them together.We have a sort of stagflation situation.

—MacLennan, Hugh

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel: they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, preciselyas men would suffer†it is thoughtless to condem them, or laugh at them, if they seek to domorethancustomhas pronounced necessary for their sex.

—Bronte«  , Charlotte