- 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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Once more doth Pitt deem the land crying loud to him— Frail though and spent, and an hungered for restfulness Once more responds he, dead fervours to energize Aims to concentre, slack efforts to bind.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
And in this point do the songs of eternity concentre.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
This expedient may give a present relief; but it seems a most dangerous experiment to concentre so much power of resistance in one body of men appointed for life.
From Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
As the attributes of the poets of the kosmos concentre in the real body and soul and in the pleasure of things, they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance.
From Poems By Walt Whitman by William Michael Rossetti
As the attributes of the poets of the kosmos concentre in the real body and soul and in the pleasure of things they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
You know, the one where “The wretch, concentred all in self / Living, shall forfeit fair renown”?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
For, when the fiery vapors of the war lowered in the skirts of our horizon, all our wishes were concentred in this one, that we might escape the desolation of the storm.
From American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Alexander Johnston
Whether Colours may be concentred by a sharp cold?
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg
Our very history wants unity, and down to the Revolution the attention is wearied and confused by having to divide itself among thirteen parallel threads, instead of being concentred on a single clew.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
Even now, though so thoughtful, and even so sad, the rays of that eye were as concentred and steadfast as the light of the diamond.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
Good management and good luck had so disposed it that the allied bands, concentring from points more than a thousand miles distant, reached the rendezvous on the same day.
From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV 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
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
From sack'd Savanna, whelm'd in hostile fires, A few raw troops brave Lincoln now retires; 2l With rapid march to suffering Charleston goes, To meet the myriads of concentring foes, Who shade the pointed strand.
From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow
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
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