All 3 Uses of
convey
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- It was too easy to go on making out conveyances and arguing ditching cases.†
Chpt 13conveyances = means of transport
- If Kennicott were snatched from Gopher Prairie and instantly conveyed to a town leagues away, he would not realize it.†
Chpt 22 *conveyed = transported
- No one knew that they were coming; no one met them; and because of the icy roads, the only conveyance at the station was the hotel 'bus, which they missed while Kennicott was giving his trunk-check to the station agent—the only person to welcome them.†
Chpt 34 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express
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(2)
(convey as in: convey title to the property) to give or transfer -- especially legal title
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(3)
(convey as in: convey her safely to) transportToday, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and then probably in classic literature), conveyance can refer to a carriage or other means of transportation.