- a variation of concenter.
concentre
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of concentre
C16: from French concentrer; see concentrate
Example Sentences
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It were not fit that the young should concentre themselves in so narrow a circle; nor do the young seem to have any such intention.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
All his propensities appeared to concentre in his occupation and the promotion of his master's interest, from which he was drawn aside by no allurements of sensual or intellectual pleasure.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
That widespread enchantment seemed to concentre and embody itself mysteriously in her; she became its living manifestation.
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
As the attributes of the poets of the kosmos concentre in the real body, and in the pleasure of things, they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
All his designs concentre in himself For building castles and amassing pelf.
From The True Benjamin Franklin by Sydney George Fisher
You know, the one where “The wretch, concentred all in self / Living, shall forfeit fair renown”?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
He loved this father of his with the helpless, concentred love of a motherless child; admired him, as all must admire, only more loyally.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The sisters could no longer see each other, but all the waning light in the room seemed concentred upon the pallid face between them.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
Their tender feelings having little else to engage them, became concentred in her and her alone.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
This war was the strife of a united and concentred few against a divided and discordant many.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Francis Parkman
Terrestrial Heaven, danced round by other Heavens, That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps, Light above light, for thee alone, as seems, In thee concentring all their precious beams Of sacred influence!
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
And as the now advancing and concentring enterprise demanded more and more compacted vigor from him, he felt that he was having less and less to bring to it.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
History, that may in some measure be considered as concentring in itself the elements of all other sciences?
From Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin
In one, by twos and threes, young people, Hundreds concentring, walk'd the paths and streets and roads, Toward a tall-domed school.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Terrestrial Heaven, danced round by other Heavens That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps, Light above light, for thee alone, as seems, In thee concentring all their precious beams Of sacred influence!
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
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