All 8 Uses of
induce
in
The House of Mirth
- Perhaps I don't regard it as such a strong inducement to go and see you."†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Judy has promised to ask him to dine when we get to town, but I can't induce her to have him at Bellomont, and if you would let me bring him up now it would make a lot of difference.†
Chpt 1.8
- Nothing would have induced her to undergo the exertion and fatigue of attending the Van Osburgh wedding, but so great was her interest in the event that, having heard two versions of it, she now prepared to extract a third from her niece.†
Chpt 1.9
- …Fisher, to whom they had entrusted the conduct of the affair, had decided that TABLEAUX VIVANTS and expensive music were the two baits most likely to attract the desired prey, and after prolonged negotiations, and the kind of wire-pulling in which she was known to excel, she had induced a dozen fashionable women to exhibit themselves in a series of pictures which, by a farther miracle of persuasion, the distinguished portrait painter, Paul Morpeth, had been prevailed upon to organize.†
Chpt 1.12
- Lawrence Selden was among those who had yielded to the proffered inducements.†
Chpt 1.12
- He would marry her tomorrow if she could regain Bertha Dorset's friendship; and to induce the open resumption of that friendship, and the tacit retractation of all that had caused its withdrawal, she had only to put to the lady the latent menace contained in the packet so miraculously delivered into her hands.†
Chpt 2.7
- And even could it have been found, how were the ladies on whose approval she depended to be induced to give her their patronage?†
Chpt 2.10
- Even this arrangement was not effected without considerable negotiation, for Mme. Regina had a strong prejudice against untrained assistance, and was induced to yield only by the fact that she owed the patronage of Mrs. Bry and Mrs. Gormer to Carry Fisher's influence.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(induce as in: induce symptoms) to cause something to arise or happen