All 10 Uses of
yield
in
Antony and Cleopatra
- He'll never yield to that.†
Scene 3.6yield = give in, give way, or give up
- Nor must not then be yielded to in this.
Scene 3.6yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- To Caesar will I render My legions and my horse; six kings already Show me the way of yielding.
Scene 3.10yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- All is lost; This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me: My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder They cast their caps up, and carouse together Like friends long lost.
Scene 4.12yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- If thou please To take me to thee, as I was to him I'll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not, I yield thee up my life.
Scene 5.1 *yield = give in, give way, or give up
- —If thou say so, villain, thou kill'st thy mistress; But well and free, If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here My bluest veins to kiss,—a hand that kings Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing.†
Scene 2.5
- The queen shall then have courtesy, so she Will yield us up.†
Scene 3.13
- He is a god, and knows What is most right: mine honour was not yielded, But conquer'd merely.†
Scene 3.13
- Mine honest friends, I turn you not away; but, like a master Married to your good service, stay till death: Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, And the gods yield you for't!†
Scene 4.2
- Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield; Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks The pauses that he makes.†
Scene 5.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2)
(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up