All 3 Uses of
comprehend
in
The Fountainhead
- He laughed at the slow look of comprehension on Keating's face.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- He saw the economy of plan preserved, but the expense of incomprehensible features added; the variety of modeled masses gone, replaced by the monotony of brutish cubes; a new wing added, with a vaulted roof, bulging out of a wall like a tumor, containing a gymnasium; strings of balconies added, made of metal stripes painted a violent blue; comer windows without purpose; an angle cut off for a useless door, with a round metal awning supported by a pole, like a haberdashery in theā¦†
Chpt 4.12
- # "It happens, upon rare occasions, that world forces too great to comprehend become focused in a single event, like rays gathered by a lens to one point of superlative brightness, for all of us to see.†
Chpt 4.13
Definition:
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(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely