All 3 Uses of
convey
in
A Christmas Carol
- "Speak comfort to me, Jacob!"
"I have none to give," the Ghost replied. "It comes from other regions, Ebenezer Scrooge, and is conveyed by other ministers, to other kinds of men."
Chpt 1conveyed = carried
- He then conveyed him and his sister into the veriest old well of a shivering best-parlour that ever was seen, where the maps upon the wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were waxy with cold.
Chpt 2conveyed = transported
- The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come conveyed him, as before ... into the resorts of business men, but showed him not himself.
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
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(convey as in: convey her safely to) transporteditor's notes: Today, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.