All 5 Uses of
conceive
in
Gone with the Wind
- It was inconceivable to him that Charles' only son should be reared where he could not supervise the rearing.†
Chpt 2.8 *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.
- It was inconceivable that the bustling town they knew, so full of people, so crowded with soldiers, was gone.†
Chpt 3.28
- Melanie had never seen evil, never seen cruelty, and now that she looked on them for the first time she found them too inconceivable to believe.†
Chpt 5.56
- There's too much honor in her to conceive of dishonor in anyone she loves.†
Chpt 5.54
- She remembered irrelevantly Rhett's drunken remark: "She can't conceive of dishonor in anyone she loves ....let that be your cross."†
Chpt 5.55
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