All 8 Uses of
yield
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- Everything was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience.
p. 35.1yield = give in
- With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her.
p. 37.2yield = give up
- She had at first yielded to our entreaties, but when she heard that the life of her favourite was menaced, she could no longer control her anxiety.
p. 44.4yielded = given in
- It was a most beautiful season; never did the fields bestow a more plentiful harvest or the vines yield a more luxuriant vintage, but my eyes were insensible to the charms of nature.
p. 56.1 *yield = produce
- Winter, spring, and summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves—sights which before always yielded me supreme delight—so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.
p. 57.3yielded = gave
- I fear that he will become an idler unless we yield the point and permit him to enter on the profession which he has selected.
p. 66.1 *yield = give up
- Still, as I urged our leaving Ireland with such inquietude and impatience, my father thought it best to yield.
p. 187.7yield = give in
- My father yielded at length to my desire to avoid society and strove by various arguments to banish my despair.
p. 189.6yielded = gave in
Definitions:
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(1)
(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2)
(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)