Both Uses
conglomerate
in
Bleak House
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- A sallow prisoner has come up, in custody, for the half-dozenth time to make a personal application "to purge himself of his contempt," which, being a solitary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pretended that he had ever any knowledge, he is not at all likely ever to do.†
Chpt 1-3
- Nothing can possibly come of the prisoner's conglomeration but his being sent back to prison, which is soon done.†
Chpt 1-3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(conglomerate) to mix different things that maintain their difference in the mixture; or the resulting mixturein various senses, such as:
- a group of diverse companies run as a single organization
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)