All 26 Uses of
comprehend
in
Pride and Prejudice
- I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.†
Chpt 8
- "Then," observed Elizabeth, "you must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman."†
Chpt 8
- Yes, I do comprehend a great deal in it.†
Chpt 8
- "You begin to comprehend me, do you?" cried he, turning towards her.†
Chpt 9
- He thought too well of himself to comprehend on what motives his cousin could refuse him; and though his pride was hurt, he suffered in no other way.†
Chpt 20
- I do not at all comprehend her reason for wishing to be intimate with me; but if the same circumstances were to happen again, I am sure I should be deceived again.†
Chpt 26
- I perfectly comprehend your feelings, and have now only to be ashamed of what my own have been.†
Chpt 34
- She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.†
Chpt 36
- …his own connections he was esteemed and valued—that even Wickham had allowed him merit as a brother, and that she had often heard him speak so affectionately of his sister as to prove him capable of some amiable feeling; that had his actions been what Mr. Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of everything right could hardly have been concealed from the world; and that friendship between a person capable of it, and such an amiable man as Mr. Bingley, was incomprehensible.†
Chpt 36
- Very frequently were they reproached for this insensibility by Kitty and Lydia, whose own misery was extreme, and who could not comprehend such hard-heartedness in any of the family.†
Chpt 41
- In this danger Kitty also is comprehended.†
Chpt 41
- Wickham's alarm now appeared in a heightened complexion and agitated look; for a few minutes he was silent, till, shaking off his embarrassment, he turned to her again, and said in the gentlest of accents: "You, who so well know my feeling towards Mr. Darcy, will readily comprehend how sincerely I must rejoice that he is wise enough to assume even the appearance of what is right.†
Chpt 41
- One enjoyment was certain—that of suitableness of companions; a suitableness which comprehended health and temper to bear inconveniences—cheerfulness to enhance every pleasure—and affection and intelligence, which might supply it among themselves if there were disappointments abroad.†
Chpt 42
- But he is a liberal master, I suppose, and that in the eye of a servant comprehends every virtue.†
Chpt 43
- In Darcy's presence she dared not mention Wickham's name; but Elizabeth instantly comprehended that he was uppermost in her thoughts; and the various recollections connected with him gave her a moment's distress; but exerting herself vigorously to repel the ill-natured attack, she presently answered the question in a tolerably detached tone.†
Chpt 45
- In such an exigence, my uncle's advice and assistance would be everything in the world; he will immediately comprehend what I must feel, and I rely upon his goodness."†
Chpt 46
- While the contents of the first letter remained in her mind, she was all surprise—all astonishment that Wickham should marry a girl whom it was impossible he could marry for money; and how Lydia could ever have attached him had appeared incomprehensible.†
Chpt 46
- Though her brother and sister were persuaded that there was no real occasion for such a seclusion from the family, they did not attempt to oppose it, for they knew that she had not prudence enough to hold her tongue before the servants, while they waited at table, and judged it better that one only of the household, and the one whom they could most trust should comprehend all her fears and solicitude on the subject.†
Chpt 47
- You will easily comprehend, from these particulars, that Mr. Wickham's circumstances are not so hopeless as they are generally believed to be.†
Chpt 49
- Mrs. Bennet could hardly comprehend it.†
Chpt 50
- She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her.
Chpt 50 *comprehend = understand
- "You may readily comprehend," she added, "what my curiosity must be to know how a person unconnected with any of us, and (comparatively speaking) a stranger to our family, should have been amongst you at such a time.†
Chpt 51
- He then told her of Georgiana's delight in her acquaintance, and of her disappointment at its sudden interruption; which naturally leading to the cause of that interruption, she soon learnt that his resolution of following her from Derbyshire in quest of her sister had been formed before he quitted the inn, and that his gravity and thoughtfulness there had arisen from no other struggles than what such a purpose must comprehend.†
Chpt 58
- Nor was it under many, many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard; though not in general backward to credit what was for the advantage of her family, or that came in the shape of a lover to any of them.†
Chpt 59
- I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?†
Chpt 60
- By Elizabeth's instructions, she began to comprehend that a woman may take liberties with her husband which a brother will not always allow in a sister more than ten years younger than himself.†
Chpt 61
Definition:
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(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely