All 4 Uses of
conducive
in
War and Peace
- What also conduced to Bagration's being selected as Moscow's hero was the fact that he had no connections in the city and was a stranger there.†
Chpt 4 *
- Our Freemasons knew from correspondence with those abroad that Bezukhov had obtained the confidence of many highly placed persons, had been initiated into many mysteries, had been raised to a higher grade, and was bringing back with him much that might conduce to the advantage of the Masonic cause in Russia.†
Chpt 6
- The day after this conversation Natasha put on the old dress which she knew had the peculiar property of conducing to cheerfulness in the mornings, and that day she returned to the old way of life which she had abandoned since the ball.†
Chpt 6
- All the well-known people of that period, from Alexander and Napoleon to Madame de Stael, Photius, Schelling, Fichte, Chateaubriand, and the rest, pass before their stern judgment seat and are acquitted or condemned according to whether they conduced to progress or to reaction.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(conducive) contribute (help lead to a result)