YIELD in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

2 meanings, 11 uses

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1 —1 use as in:
will yield valuable data

Definition

to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced

"Halt, rascals, and yield me that wench!" suddenly shouted in a voice of thunder, a cavalier who appeared suddenly from a neighboring square.
1.2.4 — Vol 1 Bk 2 Chpt 4 — The Inconveniences of Following.... (77% in)

yield = give

There are no more uses of "yield" flagged with this meaning in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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2 —5 uses as in:
yield to pressure

Definition

to give in, give way, or give up

Nevertheless, he felt that the great door was yielding.
2.10.4 — Vol 2 Bk 10 Chpt 4 — An Awkward Friend (54% in)

yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

...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.
1.2.6 — Vol 1 Bk 2 Chpt 6 — The Broken Jug (83% in)

yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)

How much more solid, durable, unyielding, is a book of stone!
1.5.2 — Vol 1 Bk 5 Chpt 2 — This Will Kill That (53% in)
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.
2.7.1 — Vol 2 Bk 7 Chpt 1 — The Danger of Confiding One's.... (55% in)

yielding = 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.
2.9.4 — Vol 2 Bk 9 Chpt 4 — Earthenware and Crystal (29% in)

There are no more uses of "yield" flagged with this meaning in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Typical Usage (best examples)

? —5 uses
exact meaning not specified

But, after all, she must not be too angry with him for it; had she not confessed her crime? had she not yielded, weak woman that she was, to torture?
2.9.4 — Vol 2 Bk 9 Chpt 4 — Earthenware and Crystal (8% in)

The poet's already sickly doublet yielded its last sigh in this struggle.
1.2.6 — Vol 1 Bk 2 Chpt 6 — The Broken Jug (31% in)
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.
1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (67% in)
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.
1.6.4 — Vol 1 Bk 6 Chpt 4 — A Tear for a Drop of Water (63% in)
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.
2.7.4 — Vol 2 Bk 7 Chpt 4 — ANARKH (76% in)

There are no more uses of "yield" in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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