All 14 Uses of
comprehend
in
The Awakening
- Their freedom of expression was at first incomprehensible to her, though she had no difficulty in reconciling it with a lofty chastity which in the Creole woman seems to be inborn and unmistakable.†
Chpt 4
- I don't comprehend half of them.†
Chpt 10
- I can't make it more clear; it's only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me."†
Chpt 16
- It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.†
Chpt 18
- Whereupon Victor administered a rebuke in the form of a volley of abuse, which, owing to its rapidity and incoherence, was all but incomprehensible to Edna.†
Chpt 20
- Of course, he couldn't think of telling Mrs. Pontellier all about it, she being a woman and not comprehending such things.†
Chpt 20
- Edna marveled, not comprehending.†
Chpt 23
- To Madame Ratignolle he said the music dispensed at her soirees was too "heavy," too far beyond his untrained comprehension.†
Chpt 23
- He meant to stop at the wedding on his way to New York and endeavor by every means which money and love could devise to atone somewhat for Edna's incomprehensible action.†
Chpt 24
- I only half comprehend her.
Chpt 27 *comprehend = completely understand
- She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to took upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality.†
Chpt 28
- "Day before yesterday!" she repeated, aloud; and went on thinking to herself, "day before yesterday," in a sort of an uncomprehending way.†
Chpt 33
- I've been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul.†
Chpt 33
- It took Victor some little time to comprehend that she had come in Beaudelet's lugger, that she had come alone, and for no purpose but to rest.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely