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The Devil in the White City
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- He was brilliant and charming, but once fixed on a thing, he was as unyielding as a slab of Joliet limestone.†
p. 143.7unyielding = strict, firm, or hard (not giving in, not giving way, or not giving up)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyielding means not and reverses the meaning of yielding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- I presume anyone running a race has moments of half despair, along toward the end; but they must never be yielded to.†
p. 222.4 *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- The Black City to the north lay steeped in smoke and garbage, but here in the White City of the fair visitors found clean public bathrooms, pure water, an ambulance service, electric streetlights, and a sewage-processing system that yielded acres of manure for farmers.†
p. 247.2 *yielded = gave or produced
- Teaching had paid a poverty wage; his medical practice yielded an income only slightly larger.†
p. 42.6
- The tests yielded similar results—until Gottlieb's men came to the site intended for George Post's gigantic Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.†
p. 129.9
- Harriet Monroe, who knew him and his wife, wrote, "His genius was betrayed by lofty and indomitable traits of character which could not yield or compromise.†
p. 174.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2)
(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)