All 8 Uses of
conceive
in
Great Expectations
- My mind, with inconceivable rapidity followed out all the consequences of such a death.†
Chpt 53 *inconceivable = totally unlikely or impossible to understand
- Again my mind, with its former inconceivable rapidity, had exhausted the whole subject of the attack upon my sister, her illness, and her death, before his slow and hesitating speech had formed these words.†
Chpt 53
- I conceived the idea that the time when the banns were read and when the clergyman said, "Ye are now to declare it!" would be the time for me to rise and propose a private conference in the vestry.†
Chpt 4
- I cannot conceive why everybody of his standing who visited at our house should always have put me through the same inflammatory process under similar circumstances.†
Chpt 10
- Mr. Wopsle hesitated, and we all began to conceive rather a poor opinion of him.†
Chpt 18
- It was this, I conceive, which led to the Shade's being advised by the gallery to "turn over!"†
Chpt 31
- He had no occasion to say after that that he had conceived an aversion for my patron, neither had I occasion to confess my own.†
Chpt 41
- We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.†
Chpt 58
Definitions:
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(1)
(conceive as in: conceive the idea) to originate, understand, or imagine
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(2)
(conceive as in: conceived their first child) become pregnant or fertilize an egg