Both Uses
construe
in
Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
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- If the individual so resisted be of a not inhumane temper, and the resisting one perfectly harmless in his passivity; then, in the better moods of the former, he will endeavor charitably to construe to his imagination what proves impossible to be solved by his judgment.†
*construe = understand something to have a specific meaning
- At any rate, upon the occasion in question, I strove to drown my exasperated feelings towards the scrivener by benevolently construing his conduct.†
construing = understanding something to have a specific meaning
Definitions:
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(1)
(construe) to interpret (understand) something as have a specific meaning
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)