All 9 Uses
coax
in
The Good Earth
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- They were always having to resist relatives who were more crowded—his uncle, with his endless brood of children, coaxing.†
Chpt 1coaxing = trying to obtain a result through gentle and careful effort -- often gently persuading
- But Wang Lung coaxed them saying, "You are two big men and you are travellers to the south.†
Chpt 10coaxed = tried to obtain a result through gentle and careful effort -- often gently persuaded
- It was more than they had to eat at one time for many days, and although they were starved for food, when it was in their mouths desire left them and it was only by coaxing that the boys could be made to swallow.†
Chpt 11coaxing = trying to obtain a result through gentle and careful effort -- often gently persuading
- As for the vegetables, there was everything which the hand of man could coax from the soil; glittering red radishes and white, hollow lotus root and taro, green cabbages and celery, curling bean sprouts and brown chestnuts and garnishes of fragrant cress.†
Chpt 12
- But still there was nothing to be done, for when he said gently and to coax her, "Now, Lotus, my flower, and do not waste your sweetness on an old fat hag like that one.†
Chpt 21
- There was no correction that could be made of the lad at all, for if his father said to him with anything beyond coaxing, "Now eat of the good meat and rice," the lad turned stubborn and melancholy, and if Wang Lung was angry at all, he burst into tears and fled from the room.†
Chpt 22coaxing = trying to obtain a result through gentle and careful effort -- often gently persuading
- She sat up, then, and pushed her hair fretfully back from her face and she shrugged her shoulders when he would have drawn her to him, and she would not yield to his coaxing.†
Chpt 24
- Then Wang Lung coaxed him and said, "Now you may go to any school you like and I will send you to the great schools of the south or even to a foreign school to learn curious things, and you shall go anywhere you like for study if you will not be a soldier.†
Chpt 32coaxed = tried to obtain a result through gentle and careful effort -- often gently persuaded
- And when the lad was still silent, he coaxed again, and he said, "Tell your old father why you want to be a soldier?"†
Chpt 32 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(coax as in: coax her to join us) try to obtain a result through gentle and careful effort -- often gentle persuasion
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, coax is a short for coaxial cable (a type of electrical cable used to transmit data, the internet, video and voice communications). Coaxial cables have a conducting wire surrounded by an insulating layer surrounded by a shield. The insulating layer and shield surround a common axis--the conducting wire.
In classic literature, you may see coax used as a synonym for caress or fondle.