All 9 Uses of
derive
in
Bleak House
- I was so occupied with Peepy that I lost the letter in detail, though I derived such a general impression from it of the momentous importance of Africa, and the utter insignificance of all other places and things, that I felt quite ashamed to have thought so little about it.†
Chpt 4-6
- Then from whence, my friends, in a human point of view, do we derive the strength that is necessary to our limbs?†
Chpt 19-21 *
- From whence have we derived that spiritual profit?†
Chpt 19-21
- He was perfectly confidential with me, and often talked so sensibly and feelingly about his faults and his vigorous resolutions, and dwelt so much upon the encouragement he derived from these conversations that I could never have been tired if I had tried.†
Chpt 22-24
- I clearly derived from it—and that was much then—that I had not been abandoned by my mother.†
Chpt 34-36
- It is the first act he notices, and he clearly derives pleasure from it.†
Chpt 55-57
- From the goodness of all about me I derived such consolation as I can never think of unmoved.†
Chpt 58-60
- She had been to make a stately call upon the wards in Jarndyce, as she still called them, and had derived the highest gratification from that ceremony.†
Chpt 58-60
- And it was a comfort to me, and an impulse to me, and I felt a dignity rise up within me that was derived from him when I thought so.†
Chpt 61-63
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.)