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'You knew my father infinitely better than I ever knew him; and his reserve with me yielded to you.†
Chpt 1.5

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
He yielded to it in that light only, when he submitted to her entreaties, backed by those of his uncle and sister.†
Chpt 1.7
It would be worth no man's while to mislead me; it would really be too easy—too poor a success, to yield any satisfaction.†
Chpt 1.8 *

yield = produce or give
It was at first difficult to lead him to speak about himself, and he put off Arthur's advances in that direction by admitting slightly, oh yes, he had done this, and he had done that, and such a thing was of his making, and such another thing was his discovery, but it was his trade, you see, his trade; until, as he gradually became assured that his companion had a real interest in his account of himself, he frankly yielded to it.†
Chpt 1.16

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
Who could be much with so pliable and beautiful a creature, and not yield to her endearing influence?†
Chpt 1.16 *

yield = give in, give way, or give up
who had nothing in his favour but his honest love and his general wish to do right—suppose such a man were to come to this house, and were to yield to the captivation of this charming girl, and were to persuade himself that he could hope to win her;†
Chpt 1.16
Since their recent return, our friend has yielded to a weekly visit, but that is the utmost.†
Chpt 1.17

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
'Politeness must yield to this misguided girl, ma'am,' said Mr Meagles, 'at her present pass; though I hope not altogether to dismiss it, even with the injury you do her so strongly before me.†
Chpt 1.27

yield = give in, give way, or give up
Not the less unyielding with him on that account, he scraped his chin and said, what could he have the honour of doing for Mr Blandois to-night, out of business hours?†
Chpt 1.30

unyielding = 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.
She yielded it to him, and he put it aside.†
Chpt 1.32

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
In the first interview she accorded to Mr Meagles, she slided herself into the position of disconsolately but gracefully yielding to irresistible pressure.†
Chpt 1.33

yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
In the arrangement of the house for the great occasion, many little reminders of the old travels of the father and mother and daughter had to be disturbed and passed from hand to hand; and sometimes, in the midst of these mute witnesses, to the life they had had together, even Pet herself would yield to lamenting and weeping.†
Chpt 1.34

yield = give in, give way, or give up
He yielded himself to her kisses and caresses, but did not return them, except that he put an arm about her.†
Chpt 1.35

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
Worn out with her own emotions, and yielding to the silence of the room, her hand slowly slackened and failed in its fanning movement, and her head dropped down on the pillow at her father's side.†
Chpt 1.35

yielding = giving in, giving up, or giving way (easily moved or soft)
Mr Dorrit, yielding to the vast speculation how the poor creatures were to get on without him, was great, and sad, but not absorbed.†
Chpt 1.36
As the heat of the glowing day when they had stopped to drink at the streams of melted ice and snow, was changed to the searching cold of the frosty rarefied night air at a great height, so the fresh beauty of the lower journey had yielded to barrenness and desolation.†
Chpt 2.1

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
Being his favourite, besides, and no doubt attached to him, she is all the more likely to yield to his influence.'†
Chpt 2.5

yield = give in, give way, or give up
It made her anxious and ill at ease to be operated upon by that smoothing hand, it is true; but she submitted herself to the family want in its greatness as she had submitted herself to the family want in its littleness, and yielded to her own inclinations in this thing no more than she had yielded to her hunger itself, in the days when she had saved her dinner that her father might have his supper.†
Chpt 2.7

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
It made her anxious and ill at ease to be operated upon by that smoothing hand, it is true; but she submitted herself to the family want in its greatness as she had submitted herself to the family want in its littleness, and yielded to her own inclinations in this thing no more than she had yielded to her hunger itself, in the days when she had saved her dinner that her father might have his supper.†
Chpt 2.7
If she had been possessed of the old fabled influence, and had turned those who looked upon her into stone, she could not have rendered him more completely powerless (so it seemed to him in his distress of mind) than she did, when she turned her unyielding face to his in her gloomy room.†
Chpt 2.23

unyielding = 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.
He yielded to her imperious but elated look, and turned her chair back to the place from which he had wheeled it.†
Chpt 2.23

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
'If you had never yielded to this fatal mania, Pancks,' said Clennam, more in commiseration than retaliation, 'it would have been how much better for you, and how much better for me!'†
Chpt 2.26
Arthur Clennam dropped into a solitary arm-chair, itself as faded as any debtor in the jail, and yielded himself to his thoughts.†
Chpt 2.27
Here was Mrs Merdle in gauzy mourning—the original cap whereof had possibly been rent to pieces in a fit of grief, but had certainly yielded to a highly becoming article from the Parisian market—warring with Fanny foot to foot, and breasting her with her desolate bosom every hour in the day.†
Chpt 2.33
His head was awry, and he had a one-sided, crab-like way with him, as if his foundations had yielded at about the same time as those of the house, and he ought to have been propped up in a similar manner.†
Chpt 1.3
It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite given up all its hopeful yearnings yet.†
Chpt 1.3
His picture, dark and gloomy, earnestly speechless on the wall, with the eyes intently looking at his son as they had looked when life departed from them, seemed to urge him awfully to the task he had attempted; but as to any yielding on the part of his mother, he had now no hope, and as to any other means of setting his distrust at rest, he had abandoned hope a long time.†
Chpt 1.5
Long in the legs, yielding at the knees, foolish in the face, flannel-jacketed, lime-whitened.†
Chpt 1.12
When, to these three-fold points of prudence there is added the fact that Mrs Gowan yielded her consent the moment she knew of Mr Meagles having yielded his, and that Mr Meagles's objection to the marriage had been the sole obstacle in its way all along, it becomes the height of probability that the relict of the deceased Commissioner of nothing particular, turned these ideas in her sagacious mind.†
Chpt 1.33
When, to these three-fold points of prudence there is added the fact that Mrs Gowan yielded her consent the moment she knew of Mr Meagles having yielded his, and that Mr Meagles's objection to the marriage had been the sole obstacle in its way all along, it becomes the height of probability that the relict of the deceased Commissioner of nothing particular, turned these ideas in her sagacious mind.†
Chpt 1.33
Am I justified in at last yielding my most reluctant consent to Henry's marrying among people not in Society; or, have I acted with inexcusable weakness?'†
Chpt 1.33
The world seemed hardly large enough to yield him an amount of travel proportionate to his equipment.†
Chpt 2.1
But it was natural that he should gradually allow himself to be over-persuaded by Clennam, and should yield.†
Chpt 2.8
Yield he did.†
Chpt 2.8
It is as much as to state—not that I wish to press it or even recall it, for it is of no use now, and my only wish is to make the best of existing circumstances—that from the first to the last I always objected to this match of yours, and at a very late period yielded a most unwilling consent to it.'†
Chpt 2.8
Do they yield so laudably to the vast and cumulative influence of such enterprise and such renown; do those little rills become absorbed so quietly and easily, and, as it were by the influence of natural laws, so beautifully, in the swoop of the majestic stream as it flows upon its wondrous way enriching the surrounding lands; that their course is perfectly to be calculated, and distinctly to be predicated?'†
Chpt 2.12
After yielding herself up, in this pattern manner, to sisterly advice and the force of circumstances, Fanny became quite benignant: as one who had laid her own inclinations at the feet of her dearest friend, and felt a glow of conscience in having made the sacrifice.†
Chpt 2.15
Every wave-dashed, storm-beaten object, was so low and so little, under the broad grey sky, in the noise of the wind and sea, and before the curling lines of surf, making at it ferociously, that the wonder was there was any Calais left, and that its low gates and low wall and low roofs and low ditches and low sand-hills and low ramparts and flat streets, had not yielded long ago to the undermining and besieging sea, like the fortifications children make on the sea-shore.†
Chpt 2.20
Surprise at this inconsistent behaviour yielded when he was gone (he went away directly) to the feelings which the empty room awakened in Clennam's wounded breast, and to the crowding associations with the one good and gentle creature who had sanctified it.†
Chpt 2.26
The blending, as he did so, of his old submission with a sense of something humorous; the striving of that with a certain smouldering ferocity, which might have flashed fire in an instant (as the born gentleman seemed to think, for he had a wary eye upon him); and the easy yielding of all to a good-natured, careless, predominant propensity to sit down on the ground again: formed a very remarkable combination of character.†
Chpt 2.28
Little Dorrit yielded willingly.†
Chpt 2.31

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(1) (yield as in: will yield valuable data)
to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
(2) (yield as in: yield to pressure)
to give in, give way, or give up
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