All 3 Uses of
contend
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Maggie, thinking it was no use to contend further, began too, and ate up her half puff with considerable relish as well as rapidity.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- If any one strongly impressed with the power of the human mind to triumph over circumstances will contend that the parishioners of Basset might nevertheless have been a very superior class of people, I have nothing to urge against that abstract proposition; I only know that, in point of fact, the Basset mind was in strict keeping with its circumstances.†
Chpt 1.8
- Maggie felt a deep movement of compunction; for the moment, her mind ceased to contend against what she felt to be cruel and unreasonable, and in her self-blame she justified her brother.†
Chpt 5.5
Definition:
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(contend as in: She contended that...) to claim that something is true