All 5 Uses of
contend
in
Great Expectations
- Sarah Pocket and Georgiana contended who should remain last; but Sarah was too knowing to be outdone, and ambled round Georgiana with that artful slipperiness that the latter was obliged to take precedence.†
Chpt 11
- "No, Pip," Joe assented, as if he had been contending for that, all along; "and what I say to you is, you are right, Pip."†
Chpt 15
- The contention came, after all, to this;—the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.†
Chpt 16
- So suddenly and smartly did he do this, that we all stopped in our foolish contention.†
Chpt 26 *
- He worked it himself at the police-office, day after day for many days, contending against even a committal; and at the trial where he couldn't work it himself, sat under counsel, and—every one knew—put in all the salt and pepper.†
Chpt 48
Definition:
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(contend as in: She contended that...) to claim that something is true