All 5 Uses of
conceive
in
Howards End
- Bursts of disloyal laughter—you must remember that they are half German—greeted these suggestions, and Margaret said pensively, "How inconceivable it would be if the Royal Family cared about Art."†
Part 5 *inconceivable = totally unlikely or impossible to understand
- "But you've never conceivably—you've never—" She pulled herself together.†
Part 19conceivably = believable or understandable
- But an unexpected love of the island awoke in her, connecting on this side with the joys of the flesh, on that with the inconceivable.†
Part 24inconceivable = totally unlikely or impossible to understand
- They think it's some vulgar scandal, and I must explain, 'Oh no, it's only my sister screaming, and only two hangers-on of ours, whom she has brought here for no conceivable reason.'†
Part 26
- It was the work of Fraulein Mosebach, who had conceived the large and patriotic notion of winning back her cousins to the Fatherland by matrimony.†
Part 12
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