All 3 Uses of
yield
in
Washington Square
- As I have tried to explain, she was not eager and exacting; she took what was given her from day to day; and if the delightful custom of her lover's visits, which yielded her a happiness in which confidence and timidity were strangely blended, had suddenly come to an end, she would not only not have spoken of herself as one of the forsaken, but she would not have thought of herself as one of the disappointed.†
Chpt 10
- Do you mean that in all this time you have not yielded an inch?†
Chpt 24 *
- Without waiting for him to ask, she told him that her father had come back in exactly the same state of mind—that he had not yielded an inch.
Chpt 26 *yielded = given in, given way, or given up
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