All 7 Uses of
yield
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- When you choose an elder, you renounce your own will and yield it to him in complete submission, complete self-abnegation.†
Chpt 1 *
- They don't yield to fate.†
Chpt 3
- Alyosha had given his opinion at the time, blushing, and angry with himself for having yielded to his brother's entreaties and put such "foolish" ideas into words.
Chpt 3 *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- To prevail upon her by force or kindness was also impossible: she would yield to nothing.†
Chpt 8
- He stood, stupefied, wondering how he, after all a man of intelligence, could have yielded to such folly, have been led into such an adventure, and have kept it up for almost twenty-four hours, fussing round this Lyagavy, wetting his head.
Chpt 8yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- I repeat it again, I yield to no one the defense of the criminal.†
Chpt 12
- But in the course of his heated speech my esteemed opponent (and he was my opponent before I opened my lips) exclaimed several times, 'Oh, I will not yield the defense of the prisoner to the lawyer who has come down from Petersburg.
Chpt 12yield = give in, give way, or give 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