All 6 Uses of
yield
in
Persuasion
- It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on.†
Chpt 10 *
- The lady could not but yield to such joint entreaties, and promise to stay.†
Chpt 16 *
- It had been gradually yielding to the better hopes which her looks, or words, or actions occasionally encouraged; it had been vanquished at last by those sentiments and those tones which had reached him while she talked with Captain Harville; and under the irresistible governance of which he had seized a sheet of paper, and poured out his feelings.†
Chpt 23
- If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk.†
Chpt 23
- When I yielded, I thought it was to duty, but no duty could be called in aid here.†
Chpt 23
- I could think of you only as one who had yielded, who had given me up, who had been influenced by any one rather than by me.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
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(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced