Both Uses of
diversify
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- The fashion of the last Louis but one, of the line that was never to break —the fourteenth Louis—was conspicuous in their rich furniture; but, it was diversified by many objects that were illustrations of old pages in the history of France.†
Chpt 2.9 *diversified = made more varied
- Happily, however, there was sleep in Beauvais that night to help them out of it and they passed on once more into solitude and loneliness: jingling through the untimely cold and wet, among impoverished fields that had yielded no fruits of the earth that year, diversified by the blackened remains of burnt houses, and by the sudden emergence from ambuscade, and sharp reining up across their way, of patriot patrols on the watch on all the roads.†
Chpt 3.1
Definition:
to make more varied
Diversify is used to describe variation in some things so frequently that they can be implied by the general context without a need to state them explicitly -- such as:
- with regard to people -- varying races, ethnicities, and genders
- with regard to investments -- varying types of investments
- with regard to a company -- varying sources of business