Both Uses of
elicit
in
Great Expectations
- It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her.†
p. 250.9 *eliciting = getting or bringing out in response
- It troubled me that there should have been a lurker on the stairs, on that night of all nights in the year, and I asked the watchman, on the chance of eliciting some hopeful explanation as I handed him a dram at the door, whether he had admitted at his gate any gentleman who had perceptibly been dining out?†
p. 347.3
Definition:
get or bring out in response -- such as information or a feeling