All 4 Uses of
succumb
in
Absalom, Absalom!
- And Bon, riding beside him, trying to find out what Sutpen had told him, —Bon who for a year and a half now had been watching Henry ape his clothing and speech, who for a year and a half now had seen himself as the object of that complete and abnegant devotion which only a youth, never a woman, gives to another youth or a man; who for exactly a year now had seen the sister succumb to that same spell which the brother had already succumbed to, and this with no volition on the seducer's part, without so much as the lifting of a finger, as though it actually were the brother who had put the spell on the sister, seduced her to his own vicarious image which walked and breathed with Bon's body.†
Chpt 4
- And Bon, riding beside him, trying to find out what Sutpen had told him, —Bon who for a year and a half now had been watching Henry ape his clothing and speech, who for a year and a half now had seen himself as the object of that complete and abnegant devotion which only a youth, never a woman, gives to another youth or a man; who for exactly a year now had seen the sister succumb to that same spell which the brother had already succumbed to, and this with no volition on the seducer's part, without so much as the lifting of a finger, as though it actually were the brother who had put the spell on the sister, seduced her to his own vicarious image which walked and breathed with Bon's body.†
Chpt 4succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
- I sat there and listened to his voice and told myself 'Why, he is mad He will decree this marriage for tonight and perform his own ceremony, himself both groom and minister; pronounce his own wild benediction on it with the very bedward candle in his hand...and I mad too, for I will acquiesce, succumb; abet him and plunge down.'†
Chpt 5 *
- or if Bon was there and it was Bon himself who refused the offer, though nobody ever did know if Bon ever knew Sutpen was his father or not, whether he was trying to revenge his mother or not at first and only later fell in love, only later succumbed to the current of retribution and fatality which Miss Rosa said Sutpen had started and had doomed all his blood to, black and white both.†
Chpt 7succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
Definition:
consent reluctantly; or suffer defeat