All 3 Uses of
yield
in
The Comedy of Errors
- Transform me, then, and to your power I'll yield.†
Scene 3.2 *
- I charge thee, Satan, hous'd within this man, To yield possession to my holy prayers, And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight: I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven.†
Scene 4.4
- It is no shame; the fellow finds his vein, And, yielding to him, humours well his frenzy.
Scene 4.4 *yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
Definitions:
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(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
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(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced