All 33 Uses of
render
in
Frankenstein
- I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.
Chpt Intr. (definition 1)render = make
- He is so; but then he is wholly uneducated: he is as silent as a Turk, and a kind of ignorant carelessness attends him, which, while it renders his conduct the more astonishing, detracts from the interest and sympathy which otherwise he would command.
Chpt Intr. (definition 1)renders = makes
- You have been tutored and refined by books and retirement from the world, and you are therefore somewhat fastidious; but this only renders you the more fit to appreciate the extraordinary merits of this wonderful man.
Chpt Intr. (definition 1)
- I do not know that the relation of my disasters will be useful to you; yet, when I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am, I imagine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale, one that may direct you if you succeed in your undertaking and console you in case of failure.
Chpt Intr. (definition 1)rendered = made
- There was a sense of justice in my father's upright mind which rendered it necessary that he should approve highly to love strongly.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!
Chpt 2 (definition 1)render = make
- I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.
Chpt 5 (definition 1)rendered = made
- Study had before secluded me from the intercourse of my fellow-creatures, and rendered me unsocial; but Clerval called forth the better feelings of my heart; he again taught me to love the aspect of nature, and the cheerful faces of children.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- Absence cannot have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs; and how shall I inflict pain on my long absent son?
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- I fear, my friend, that I shall render myself tedious by dwelling on these preliminary circumstances; but they were days of comparative happiness, and I think of them with pleasure.
Chpt 7 (definition 1)render = make
- How kind and generous you are! every one else believes in her guilt, and that made me wretched, for I knew that it was impossible: and to see every one else prejudiced in so deadly a manner rendered me hopeless and despairing.
Chpt 7 (definition 1)rendered = made
- Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave, and I the cause!
Chpt 8 (definition 1)render = make
- She was dressed in mourning, and her countenance, always engaging, was rendered, by the solemnity of her feelings, exquisitely beautiful.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)rendered = made
- Several witnesses were called who had known her for many years, and they spoke well of her; but fear and hatred of the crime of which they supposed her guilty rendered them timorous and unwilling to come forward.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- The shutting of the gates regularly at ten o'clock and the impossibility of remaining on the lake after that hour had rendered our residence within the walls of Geneva very irksome to me.
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- Have we lost the power of rendering you happy?
Chpt 9 (definition 1)rendering = making
- But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.
Chpt 9 (definition 1)rendered = made
- Why does man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute; it only renders them more necessary beings.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)renders = makes
- He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)rendered = made
- For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)render = make
- Such were the events that preyed on the heart of Felix and rendered him, when I first saw him, the most miserable of his family.
Chpt 14 (definition 1)rendered = made
- Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view; the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indelible.
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- You may render me the most miserable of men, but you shall never make me base in my own eyes.
Chpt 17 (definition 1)render = make
- My father's age rendered him extremely averse to delay.
Chpt 18 (definition 1)rendered = made
- ...a thousand conflicting emotions rendered her mute as she bade me a tearful, silent farewell.
Chpt 18 (definition 1) *
- We were not allowed to converse for any length of time, for the precarious state of my health rendered every precaution necessary that could ensure tranquillity.
Chpt 21 (definition 1)
- I would not disturb you at this period, when so many misfortunes weigh upon you, but a conversation that I had with my uncle previous to his departure renders some explanation necessary before we meet.
Chpt 22 (definition 1)renders = makes
- But it is your happiness I desire as well as my own when I declare to you that our marriage would render me eternally miserable unless it were the dictate of your own free choice.
Chpt 22 (definition 1)render = make
- Observe how fast we move along and how the clouds, which sometimes obscure and sometimes rise above the dome of Mont Blanc, render this scene of beauty still more interesting.
Chpt 22 (definition 1)
- ...the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.
Chpt 23 (definition 2) *rendered = portrayed (made to look)
- But the overflowing misery I now felt, and the excess of agitation that I endured rendered me incapable of any exertion.
Chpt 23 (definition 1)rendered = made
- This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth.
Chpt 24 (definition 1)render = make
- Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die.
Chpt 24 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (render as in: rendered her unconscious) to make or cause to become
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(2) (render as in: rendered interpretation) to portray or create something in a particular way; or to interpret, translate, or extract fromThe exact meaning of this sense of render depends upon its context. For example:
- "Each artist will render a different interpretation when painting a portrait." -- create in a particular way
- "A Supreme Court judge may render his own interpretation of the Constitution." -- interpret in a particular way
- "The computer you are using, rendered this page from software instructions." -- created through interpretation
- "A graph is rendered from the underlying data." -- made
- "Fat can be rendered (extracted) by cooking meat slowly." -- extracted from