All 26 Uses of

demonstrate

in

Cry, the Beloved Country

The woman Baby Mkize is a most unsatisfactory witness, and while the prosecution, and the Counsel for the defence of the first accused, demonstrated this most clearly, neither was able to produce that conclusive proof that the murder had been discussed.†
Chpt 2.28 *

demonstrated = showed

These papers were from parsons and school-inspectors and the like, and said that the bearer, Napoleon Letsitsi, was a young man of sober habits and good conduct, and another paper said that he had passed out of a school in the Transkei as an agricultural demonstrator.†
Chpt 3.33

He sat down again and said to the young demonstrator, Where did the white man find you?†
Chpt 3.33

And Kumalo stood there, and the young demonstrator came and stood by him, both watching the small boy.†
Chpt 3.33

And that, said Kumalo earnestly to the demonstrator, is a small angel from God.†
Chpt 3.33

He groaned as he wrestled with this difficult matter, but as he sat there uncertain, he thought of the gift of the milk, and of the young demonstrator that had come to teach farming, and above all, he remembered the voice of Jarvis saying, even as if he were speaking now in this room, Is there mercy?†
Chpt 3.34

Yet the house was full to overflowing; the people were in the kitchen, and in the room where Kumalo did his accounts, and in the room where they ate, and in the room where they slept, even in the room of the young demonstrator.†
Chpt 3.34

Would you take me away just when new things are beginning, when there is milk for the children, and the young demonstrator has come, and the sticks for the dam are planted in the ground?†
Chpt 3.34

Did he not send the milk for the children, and did he not get this young demonstrator to teach the people farming?†
Chpt 3.34

So Kumalo told him about the milk, and the new dam that was to be built, and the young demonstrator.†
Chpt 3.34

But the ploughing goes slowly, because the young demonstrator, and behind him the chief, tell the men they must no longer go up and down.†
Chpt 3.35

The young demonstrator shakes his head over the dung, but next year he says it will be better.†
Chpt 3.35

For this seed one or two desolate places have been chosen, but the young demonstrator shakes his head over them, there is so little food in the soil.†
Chpt 3.35

And the demonstrator has told the people they can throw away the maize they have kept for planting, because it is inferior and he has better seed from Jarvis.†
Chpt 3.35

The chief had hinted that there were still harder things he would ask, and indeed the young demonstrator was dissatisfied that they had not been asked at once.†
Chpt 3.35

Even this year he hoped, said the young demonstrator, that the people would see something with their eyes, though he shook his head sadly over the poverty-stricken soil.†
Chpt 3.35

There was talk that the Government would give a bull to the chief, and the young demonstrator explained to Kumalo that they would get rid of the cows that gave the smallest yield, but he did not talk thus in the meeting, for that was one of the hard things for a people who counted their wealth in cattle, even these miserable cattle.†
Chpt 3.35

The young demonstrator laughed, but he cast his eyes on the ground, and rubbed his one boot against the other.†
Chpt 3.35

There fell a constraint between them, until the young demonstrator said quietly, umfundisi, I work here with all my heart, is it not so?†
Chpt 3.35

Because, to tell the truth, they were afraid of him, and his wife, and Msimangu, and the young demonstrator.†
Chpt 3.36

Definitions:

(1) (demonstrate as in: It demonstrates my point.)
to show
The exact meaning of this sense of demonstrate can depend upon its context. For example:
- "I will demonstrate how to throw a Frisbee." -- show how to do something
- "I will demonstrate how much quicker the new computer is than the old one." -- show how something works
- "Her questioned demonstrated that she was listening and thinking deeply about what was said." -- showed to be true or proved
(2) (demonstrate as in: demonstrate to protest)
a public display supporting a cause -- usually joining with others in a political protest
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)