All 10 Uses of
yield
in
Mansfield Park
- Though unworthy, from inferiority of age and strength, to be their constant associate, their pleasures and schemes were sometimes of a nature to make a third very useful, especially when that third was of an obliging, yielding temper; and they could not but own, when their aunt inquired into her faults, or their brother Edmund urged her claims to their kindness, that "Fanny was good-natured enough."
Chpt 2yielding = giving in (to get along with others)
- Mrs. Rushworth being obliged to yield to Lady Bertram's staying at home, could only be sorry.
Chpt 8yield = give in (accept)
- His sisters, to whom he had an opportunity of speaking the next morning, were quite as impatient of his advice, quite as unyielding to his representation, quite as determined in the cause of pleasure, as Tom.
Chpt 13unyielding = unbendingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyielding means not and reverses the meaning of yielding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- She was beyond their reach; and if at last obliged to yield—no matter—it was all misery now.
Chpt 16yield = give in (accept)
- Fanny could not say she did not; and as they all persevered, as Edmund repeated his wish, and with a look of even fond dependence on her good-nature, she must yield.
Chpt 18 *yield = give in
- Fanny found herself obliged to yield, that she might not be accused of pride or indifference, or some other littleness; and having with modest reluctance given her consent, proceeded to make the selection.
Chpt 26yield = give in (accept)
- His good and her bad feelings yielded to love, and such love must unite them.
Chpt 37yielded = gave in
- Susan was only acting on the same truths, and pursuing the same system, which her own judgment acknowledged, but which her more supine and yielding temper would have shrunk from asserting.
Chpt 40yielding = giving in (to get along with others)
- He yielded, but it was with agonies which did not admit of speech.
Chpt 47yielded = gave in
- I imagined I saw a mixture of many feelings: a great, though short struggle; half a wish of yielding to truths, half a sense of shame, but habit, habit carried it.
Chpt 47yielding = giving in
Definition:
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(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up