All 13 Uses of
establish
in
Mansfield Park
- It re-established peace and kindness.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)re-established = restoredstandard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-established means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
- The Miss Bertrams were now fully established among the belles of the neighbourhood; and as they joined to beauty and brilliant acquirements a manner naturally easy, and carefully formed to general civility and obligingness, they possessed its favour as well as its admiration.
Chpt 4 (definition 1)established = set with a good reputation
- By their own accounts they had been all walking after each other, and the junction which had taken place at last seemed, to Fanny's observation, to have been as much too late for re-establishing harmony, as it confessedly had been for determining on any alteration.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)re-establishing = restoringstandard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-establishing means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
- I hope we shall always think the acquaintance worth any trouble that might be taken to establish it.
Chpt 20 (definition 1) *establish = create
- As to anxiety for any alarm that her absence in such weather might occasion at home, she had nothing to suffer on that score; for as her being out was known only to her two aunts, she was perfectly aware that none would be felt, and that in whatever cottage aunt Norris might chuse to establish her during the rain, her being in such cottage would be indubitable to aunt Bertram.
Chpt 22 (definition 1)establish = set in place
- The two cousins walked home together; and, except in the immediate discussion of this engagement, which Edmund spoke of with the warmest satisfaction, as so particularly desirable for her in the intimacy which he saw with so much pleasure established, it was a silent walk; for having finished that subject, he grew thoughtful and indisposed for any other.
Chpt 22 (definition 1)established = created
- Sir Thomas, politely bowing, replied, "It is the only way, sir, in which I could not wish you established as a permanent neighbour; but I hope, and believe, that Edmund will occupy his own house at Thornton Lacey."
Chpt 25 (definition 1)established = settled
- His duties would be established, but the wife who was to share, and animate, and reward those duties, might yet be unattainable.
Chpt 26 (definition 1)established = set
- It was made, however, at last: a silver knife was bought for Betsey, and accepted with great delight, its newness giving it every advantage over the other that could be desired; Susan was established in the full possession of her own, Betsey handsomely declaring that now she had got one so much prettier herself, she should never want that again; and no reproach seemed conveyed to the equally satisfied mother, which Fanny had almost feared to be impossible.
Chpt 40 (definition 1)established = settled
- They had been all solitary, helpless, and forlorn alike; and now the arrival of the others only established her superiority in wretchedness. Her companions were relieved, but there was no good for her.
Chpt 47 (definition 2) *established = demonstrated
- He saw Mrs. Rushworth, was received by her with a coldness which ought to have been repulsive, and have established apparent indifference between them for ever; but he was mortified, he could not bear to be thrown off by the woman whose smiles had been so wholly at his command: he must exert himself to subdue so proud a display of resentment; it was anger on Fanny's account; he must get the better of it, and make Mrs. Rushworth Maria Bertram again in her treatment of himself.
Chpt 48 (definition 1)established = created
- In this spirit he began the attack, and by animated perseverance had soon re-established the sort of familiar intercourse, of gallantry, of flirtation, which bounded his views; but in triumphing over the discretion which, though beginning in anger, might have saved them both, he had put himself in the power of feelings on her side more strong than he had supposed.
Chpt 48 (definition 1)re-established = restoredstandard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-established means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
- First as a comfort to Fanny, then as an auxiliary, and last as her substitute, she was established at Mansfield, with every appearance of equal permanency.
Chpt 48 (definition 1)established = settled
Definitions:
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(1) (establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place
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(2) (establish as in: establish that there is a need) show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)