All 11 Uses
yield
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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- "Halt, rascals, and yield me that wench!" suddenly shouted in a voice of thunder, a cavalier who appeared suddenly from a neighboring square.
Chpt 1.2.4 *yield = give
- …out his arm: but at the moment when his hand touched the manikin, his body, which was now supported upon one leg only, wavered on the stool which had but three; he made an involuntary effort to support himself by the manikin, lost his balance, and fell heavily to the ground, deafened by the fatal vibration of the thousand bells of the manikin, which, yielding to the impulse imparted by his hand, described first a rotary motion, and then swayed majestically between the two posts.
Chpt 1.2.6yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- How much more solid, durable, unyielding, is a book of stone!†
Chpt 1.5.2unyielding = strict, firm, or hard (not giving in, not giving way, or not giving up)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyielding means not and reverses the meaning of yielding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The young girl looked at him again, then she blushed as though a flame had mounted into her cheeks, and, taking her tambourine under her arm, she made her way through the astonished spectators towards the door of the house where Phoebus was calling her, with slow, tottering steps, and with the troubled look of a bird which is yielding to the fascination of a serpent.
Chpt 2.7.1yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- By degrees, however, her terror disappeared, and she yielded herself wholly to the slow and melancholy air which she was singing.†
Chpt 2.9.4yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- Nevertheless, he felt that the great door was yielding.
Chpt 2.10.4 *yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
- The poet's already sickly doublet yielded its last sigh in this struggle.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- Between the Rue Neuve-duTemple and the Rue Saint-Martin, there was the Abbey of Saint-Martin, in the midst of its gardens, a superb fortified church, whose girdle of towers, whose diadem of bell towers, yielded in force and splendor only to Saint-Germain des Prés.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- But little by little that patience which had borne up under the lash of the torturer, yielded and gave way before all these stings of insects.†
Chpt 1.6.4
- You know, Monsieur Jehan, that our fief of Tirecbappe, putting the direct taxes and the rents of the nine and twenty houses in a block, yields only nine and thirty livres, eleven sous, six deniers, Parisian.†
Chpt 2.7.4
- had she not yielded, weak woman that she was, to torture?†
Chpt 2.9.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2)
(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)