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Dante's Paradise -- translated by Norton
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I wish to know if man can make satisfaction to you[3] for defective vows with other goods, so that in your scales they may not be light?" looked at we with such divine eyes, full of the sparks of love, that my power, vanquished, turned its back, and almost I lost myself with eyes cast down.†
Canto 1-11

vanquished = completely defeated
If I flame upon thee in the heat of love, beyond the fashion that on earth is seen, go that I vanquish the valor of thine eyes, marvel not, for it proceeds from perfect vision,[1] which according as it apprehends, so moves its feet to the apprehended good.†
Canto 1-11 *

vanquish = completely defeat
The Providence which governs the world with that counsel, in which every created vision is vanquished ere it reach the depth, in order that the bride[1] of Him, who with loud cries espoused her with His blessed blood, might go toward her beloved, secure in herself and also more faithful to Him, ordained two princes in her favor, who on this side and that should be to her for guides.†
Canto 1-11

vanquished = completely defeated
If such was one wheel of the chariot on which the Holy Church defended itself and vanquished in the field its civil strife,[1] surely the excellence of the other should be very plain to thee, concerning which Thomas before my coming was so courteous.†
Canto 12-22
But even as a coal which gives forth flame, and by a vivid glow surpasses it, so that it defends its own aspect,[2] thus this effulgence, which already encircles us, will be vanquished in appearance by the flesh which all this while the earth covers.†
Canto 12-22
O true sparkling of the Holy Spirit, how sudden and glowing it became to mine eyes, which, vanquished, endured it not!†
Canto 12-22
While the eternal pleasure, which was raying directly upon Beatrice, from her fair face was contenting me with its second aspect,[1] vanquishing me with the light of a smile, she said to me, "Turn thee, and listen, for not only in my eyes is Paradise."†
Canto 12-22

vanquishing = completely defeating
Regnum coelorum[4] suffers violence from fervent love, and from a living hope which vanquishes the divine will; not in such wise as man overcomes man, but vanquishes it, because it wills to be vanquished, and, vanquished, vanquishes with its own benignity.†
Canto 12-22

vanquishes = completely defeats
Regnum coelorum[4] suffers violence from fervent love, and from a living hope which vanquishes the divine will; not in such wise as man overcomes man, but vanquishes it, because it wills to be vanquished, and, vanquished, vanquishes with its own benignity.†
Canto 12-22
Regnum coelorum[4] suffers violence from fervent love, and from a living hope which vanquishes the divine will; not in such wise as man overcomes man, but vanquishes it, because it wills to be vanquished, and, vanquished, vanquishes with its own benignity.†
Canto 12-22

vanquished = completely defeated
Regnum coelorum[4] suffers violence from fervent love, and from a living hope which vanquishes the divine will; not in such wise as man overcomes man, but vanquishes it, because it wills to be vanquished, and, vanquished, vanquishes with its own benignity.†
Canto 12-22
Regnum coelorum[4] suffers violence from fervent love, and from a living hope which vanquishes the divine will; not in such wise as man overcomes man, but vanquishes it, because it wills to be vanquished, and, vanquished, vanquishes with its own benignity.†
Canto 12-22

vanquishes = completely defeats
Not otherwise the Triumph, that plays forever round the Point which vanquished me, seeming enclosed by that which it encloses, little by little to my sight was extinguished;[2] wherefore my seeing nothing, and my love constrained me to turn with my eyes to Beatrice.†
Canto 23-33

vanquished = completely defeated
By this pass I concede myself vanquished more than ever comic or tragic poet was overcome by crisis of his theme.†
Canto 23-33
I lifted up my eyes; and as at morning the eastern parts of the horizon surpass that where the sun declines, thus, as if going with my eyes from valley to mountain, I saw a part on the extreme verge vanquishing in light all the other front.†
Canto 23-33

vanquishing = completely defeating
May thy guardianship vanquish human impulses.†
Canto 23-33

vanquish = completely defeat

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(1) (vanquish)
to defeat completely
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

vanquish in Dante's Paradise -- translated by Norton (Auto-generated)

vanquish
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Dante's Paradise -- translated by Norton
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