All 6 Uses of
derive
in
War and Peace
- All the benefit he might derive from a course of treatment he would lose as a result of the disputes about Buonaparte which would be inevitable.†
Chpt 6 *
- Apart from the advantage he derived from Anatole, the very process of dominating another's will was in itself a pleasure, a habit, and a necessity to Dolokhov.†
Chpt 8
- Davout glanced at him silently and plainly derived pleasure from the signs of agitation and confusion which appeared on Balashev's face.†
Chpt 9
- You mustn't trifle with it, you know, or it may turn to pneumonia," she would go on, deriving much comfort from the utterance of that foreign word, incomprehensible to others as well as to herself.†
Chpt 9
- Countess Mary was jealous of this passion of her husband's and regretted that she could not share it; but she could not understand the joys and vexations he derived from that world, to her so remote and alien.†
Chpt 15
- From broken remarks about Natasha and his father, from the emotion with which Pierre spoke of that dead father, and from the careful, reverent tenderness with which Natasha spoke of him, the boy, who was only just beginning to guess what love is, derived the notion that his father had loved Natasha and when dying had left her to his friend.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(derive) to get something from something else
(If the context doesn't otherwise indicate where something came from, it is generally from reasoning--especially deductive reasoning.)