All 3 Uses of
convey
in
Interview with the Vampire
- I allowed myself to forget how totally I had fallen in love with Lestat's iridescent eyes, that I'd sold my soul for a many-colored and luminescent thing, thinking that a highly reflective surface conveyed the power to walk on water.†
Part 3 *conveyed = communicated or expressed
- I cannot convey to you the feeling that came over me when I heard this.†
Part 4convey = communicate or express
- My expression can't convey it now, for what Paris means to me is very different from what it meant then, in those days, at that hour; but still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness.†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express
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(2)
(convey as in: convey title to the property) to give or transfer -- especially legal title
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(3)
(convey as in: convey her safely to) transportToday, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and then probably in classic literature), conveyance can refer to a carriage or other means of transportation.