All 5 Uses of
establish
in
The Screwtape Letters
- Once this habit is well established you have the delightful situation of a human saying things with the express purpose of offending and yet having a grievance when offence is taken.
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *established = set (existing firmly)
- As this condition becomes more fully established, you will be gradually freed from the tiresome business of providing Pleasures as temptations.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
- You must make them establish as a Law for their whole married life that degree of mutual self-sacrifice which is at present sprouting naturally out of the enchantment, but which, when the enchantment dies away, they will not have charity enough to enable them to perform.†
Chpt 26 (definition 1)
- When once a sort of official, legal, or nominal Unselfishness has been established as a rule--a rule for the keeping of which their emotional resources have died away and their spiritual resources have not yet grown--the most delightful results follow.
Chpt 26 (definition 1)established = set
- The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical facts are "Real" while the spiritual elements are "subjective"; in all experiences which can discourage or corrupt them the spiritual elements are the main reality and to ignore them is to be an escapist.
Chpt 30 (definition 2) *established = accepted as true
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)