All 4 Uses of
concede
in
Bleak House
- Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Sir Leicester's gallantry concedes the point, though he still feels that to bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes is really—really— "I was about to say," resumes the lawyer with undisturbed calmness, "that whether he had died by his own hand or not, it was beyond my power to tell you.†
Chpt 10-12
- Her head concedes it, and Volumnia is enchanted.†
Chpt 40-42
- You come here to make a remarkably modest demand, which you have just stated, and it not being conceded, you will come again.†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(concede as in: concede the point) to yield or admit -- usually after dispute