All 9 Uses of
contend
in
Middlemarch
- He vehemently contended for her innocence, and the remote impersonal passion for her beauty which he had felt before, had passed now into personal devotion, and tender thought of her lot.†
Chpt 2
- Mr. Farebrother contended on theory for the desirability of all games, and said that Englishmen's wit was stagnant for want of them; but Lydgate felt certain that he would have played very much less but for the money.†
Chpt 2
- You speak to me as if I were something you had to contend against.†
Chpt 3 *
- If any one will here contend that there must have been traits of goodness in old Featherstone, I will not presume to deny this; but I must observe that goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much privacy, elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.†
Chpt 4
- He would never have been easy to call his action anything else than duty; but in this case, contending motives thrust him back into negations.†
Chpt 4
- But what I contend against is the way medical men are fouling their own nest, and setting up a cry about the country as if a general practitioner who dispenses drugs couldn't be a gentleman.†
Chpt 5
- And as to contending for a reform short of that, it is like asking for a bit of an avalanche which has already begun to thunder.†
Chpt 5
- He put out his hand to reach his hat, implying that he did not mean to contend further, and said, still with some heat— "Well, I can only say that I think Dorothea was sacrificed once, because her friends were too careless.†
Chpt 5
- Ben and Letty Garth, who were uncle and aunt before they were well in their teens, disputed much as to whether nephews or nieces were more desirable; Ben contending that it was clear girls were good for less than boys, else they would not be always in petticoats, which showed how little they were meant for; whereupon Letty, who argued much from books, got angry in replying that God made coats of skins for both Adam and Eve alike—also it occurred to her that in the East the men too wore…†
Chpt Fin.
Definition:
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(contend as in: She contended that...) to claim that something is true