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.†
Chpt 29 *
- 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?†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(elicit) get or bring out in response -- such as information or a feeling