All 4 Uses of
establish
in
Sons and Lovers
- And very soon it grew to be an established custom that he should have dinner with her.
Chpt 1.5established = set in place
- In him was established her life now.
Chpt 2.9established = placed
- Those brown eyes, full of the consciousness of failure, almost pleading for reassurance, for someone to re-establish the man in himself, to warm him, to set him up firm again, troubled Paul.
Chpt 2.14 *re-establish = restorestandard prefix: The prefix "re-" in re-establish means again. This is the same pattern you see in words like reconsider, rearrange, and regenerate.
- They could not establish between themselves and an outsider just the ordinary human feeling and unexaggerated friendship; they were always restless for the something deeper.†
Chpt 2.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(establish as in: establish a positive tone) create, start, or set in [a] place
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(2)
(establish as in: establish that there is a need) show or determine (cause to be recognized or figure out)
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)