All 3 Uses of
elicit
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- This joke elicited a fresh burst of applause.
Chpt 5-6 *elicited = brought out in response
- But my real treasure is not that, my dear friend, which awaits me beneath the sombre rocks of Monte Cristo, it is your presence, our living together five or six hours a day, in spite of our jailers; it is the rays of intelligence you have elicited from my brain, the languages you have implanted in my memory, and which have taken root there with all their philological ramifications.
Chpt 19-20elicited = got or brought out in response
- "What is it you want, dear grandpapa?" said Valentine, and she endeavored to recall to mind all the things which he would be likely to need; and as the ideas presented themselves to her mind, she repeated them aloud, then,—finding that all her efforts elicited nothing but a constant "No,"—she said, "Come, since this plan does not answer, I will have recourse to another."
Chpt 57-58
Definition:
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(elicit) get or bring out in response -- such as information or a feeling