All 20 Uses of
conceive
in
The Fountainhead
- There is no conceivable law by which a man can be forced to work on any terms except those he chooses to set.†
Chpt 1.9
- There is no conceivable law to prevent him from setting them—just as there is none to force his employer to accept them.†
Chpt 1.9
- It's because it makes no difference to her at all whether I speak or not; as if I didn't exist and never had existed...the thing more inconceivable than one's death—never to have been born.... He felt a sudden, desperate desire which he could identify—a desire to be real to her.†
Chpt 3.2 *inconceivable = totally unlikely or impossible to understandstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconceivable means not and reverses the meaning of conceivable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- If you were in love you'd want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that's the impossible, the inconceivable for you in your relations with people.†
Chpt 3.9
- By what conceivable right can anyone demand that a human being exist for anything but his own joy?†
Chpt 4.5
- The thought gave him pleasure: the sense of power and the sense of surrender to Roark in the knowledge that no conceivable force could make him exercise that power.†
Chpt 4.11
- He thought: It's not just a moral issue, not the mere horror of the act, one could conceivably abandon a man if the fate of a continent depended on it.†
Chpt 4.11conceivably = believable or understandable
- To the majority of us it will appear monstrous and inconceivable.†
Chpt 4.18inconceivable = totally unlikely or impossible to understandstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconceivable means not and reverses the meaning of conceivable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- It was Alvah Scarret who conceived the idea of the campaign against living conditions in the slums and "Landlord Sharks," which ran in the Banner for three weeks.†
Chpt 1.12
- He excused Keating at first; then he tried to mollify him, humbly and clumsily; then he conceived an unreasoning fear of Keating.†
Chpt 1.14
- They were of their own world, and they held up to the sky the statement of what man had conceived and made possible.†
Chpt 1.15 *
- He did not need to see the caption or the brusque signature in the corner of the sketch; he knew that no one else had conceived that house and he knew the manner of drawing, serene and violent at once, the pencil lines like high-tension wires on the paper, slender and innocent to see, but not to be touched.†
Chpt 2.4
- A man who can conceive a thing as beautiful as this should never allow it to be erected.†
Chpt 2.5
- You're so healthy that you can't conceive of disease.†
Chpt 2.11
- You can't conceive of that kind.†
Chpt 2.11
- It was clean—clean in the absolute sense, because it had no capacity to conceive of the world's ugliness.†
Chpt 4.4
- It has become the dreadful form of selfishness which a truly selfish man couldn't have conceived.†
Chpt 4.11
- He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had lifted darkness off the earth.†
Chpt 4.18
- He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had opened the roads of the world.†
Chpt 4.18
- Yet the work of the creators has eliminated one form of disease after another, in man's body and spirit, and brought more relief from suffering than any altruist could ever conceive.†
Chpt 4.18
Definitions:
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(1)
(conceive as in: conceive the idea) to originate, understand, or imagine
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(2)
(conceive as in: conceived their first child) become pregnant or fertilize an egg