All 14 Uses of
prevail
in
Mansfield Park
- The remaining three, Mrs. Rushworth, Mrs. Norris, and Julia, were still far behind; for Julia, whose happy star no longer prevailed, was obliged to keep by the side of Mrs. Rushworth, and restrain her impatient feet to that lady's slow pace, while her aunt, having fallen in with the housekeeper, who was come out to feed the pheasants, was lingering behind in gossip with her.
Chpt 9 (definition 1)prevailed = was in force
- "If I had not been active," said she, "and made a point of being introduced to his mother, and then prevailed on my sister to pay the first visit, I am as certain as I sit here that nothing would have come of it; for Mr. Rushworth is the sort of amiable modest young man who wants a great deal of encouragement, and there were girls enough on the catch for him if we had been idle."
Chpt 20 (definition 2)prevailed = persuaded
- Your sister, perhaps, may be prevailed on to spend the day with us, and I shall certainly be at home.
Chpt 23 (definition 2)
- …she found, while they were at table, such a happy flow of conversation prevailing, in which she was not required to take any part—
Chpt 23 (definition 1) *prevailing = being in force
- ...suffering the more from that involuntary forbearance which his character and manner commanded, and from not daring to relieve herself by a single attempt at throwing ridicule on his cause. ... It was time to have done with cards, if sermons prevailed; and she was glad to find it necessary to come to a conclusion, and be able to refresh her spirits by a change of place and neighbour.
Chpt 25 (definition 3) *prevailed = were most powerful or influential
- As these were the best of her hopes, they could not always prevail; and in the course of a long morning, spent principally with her two aunts, she was often under the influence of much less sanguine views.
Chpt 27 (definition 1)prevail = come into effect
- Half an hour followed that would have been at least languid under any other circumstances, but Fanny's happiness still prevailed.
Chpt 28 (definition 1)prevailed = was in force
- Miss Crawford saw much of Sir Thomas's thoughts as he stood, and having, in spite of all his wrongs towards her, a general prevailing desire of recommending herself to him, took an opportunity of stepping aside to say something agreeable of Fanny.
Chpt 28 (definition 1)prevailing = having an effect
- His last journey to London had been undertaken with no other view than that of introducing her brother in Hill Street, and prevailing on the Admiral to exert whatever interest he might have for getting him on.
Chpt 31 (definition 2) *prevailing = persuading
- And now, Fanny, having performed one part of my commission, and shewn you everything placed on a basis the most assured and satisfactory, I may execute the remainder by prevailing on you to accompany me downstairs, where, though I cannot but presume on having been no unacceptable companion myself, I must submit to your finding one still better worth listening to.
Chpt 32 (definition 2)
- I had thought you peculiarly free from wilfulness of temper, self-conceit, and every tendency to that independence of spirit which prevails so much in modern days, even in young women, and which in young women is offensive and disgusting beyond all common offence.
Chpt 32 (definition 1)prevails = is in force
- She stopt, felt herself getting into a puzzle, and could not be prevailed on to add another word, not by dint of several minutes of supplication and waiting.
Chpt 34 (definition 2)prevailed = persuaded
- Something like tranquillity might now be hoped for; and accordingly, when Rebecca had been prevailed on to carry away the tea-things, and Mrs. Price had walked about the room some time looking for a shirt-sleeve, which Betsey at last hunted out from a drawer in the kitchen, the small party of females were pretty well composed, and the mother having lamented again over the impossibility of getting Sam ready in time, was at leisure to think of her eldest daughter and the friends she had…
Chpt 38 (definition 2)
- She was not to be prevailed on to leave Mr. Crawford.
Chpt 48 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (prevail as in: rare, but still prevails) to be in force; or to have some power or influence
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(2) (prevail as in: she prevailed upon him) use persuasion -- especially successfullyeditor's notes: The expression "prevail upon your patience" or "prevail upon your kindness" means to appeal to the listeners patience or kindness as a method of persuasion.
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(3) (prevailing as in: prevailing attitude) most common, powerful, or influential