All 7 Uses of
surmount
in
Middlemarch
- Her sisterly tenderness could not but surmount other feelings at this moment, and her fears were the fears of affection.†
Chpt 1
- And when, looking up, her eyes met his dull despairing glance, her pity for him surmounted her anger and all her other anxieties.†
Chpt 3 *
- His sense of right had surmounted and would continue to surmount anything that might be called antipathy.†
Chpt 4
- His sense of right had surmounted and would continue to surmount anything that might be called antipathy.†
Chpt 4
- But it was not in a lover's nature—it was not in Fred's, that the new anxiety raised about Mary's feeling should not surmount every other.†
Chpt 6
- Repugnance would have been surmounted by the immense need to win, if chance would be kind enough to let him.†
Chpt 7
- "Yes," said Lydgate, a great leap of joy within him surmounting every other feeling; "that would pay all my debts, and leave me a little on hand.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(surmount) overcome (to successfully deal with an obstacle)