All 8 Uses of
conceive
in
Childhood's End
- For a moment he sat motionless at his desk, wondering what conceivable event could have disturbed the rigid discipline of the camp.†
Chpt 1
- In any case, what conceivable good will it do?†
Chpt 3
- Jan also feared ridicule quite as much as anything that the Overlords might Conceivably do to thwart him.†
Chpt 9conceivably = believable or understandable
- A man could become-for a while, at least-any other person, and could take part in any conceivable adventure, real or imaginary.†
Chpt 15
- Through the clash and tug of conflicting gravitational flelds, the planet travelled along the loops and curves of its inconceivably complex orbit, never retracing the same path.†
Chpt 18inconceivably = not able to be believed
- He remembered that monstrous eye in its buried vault-but no, that was inconceivable.†
Chpt 22 *inconceivable = totally unlikely or impossible to understand
- In the inconceivable backwash of that departure, Jan did not expect that he and his problems would long survive.†
Chpt 24
- It had nourished them, through the fierce moments of their inconceivable meta norphosis, as the food stored in a grain of wheat feeds the nfant plant while it climbs towards the Sun.†
Chpt 24
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