Eliciting
[i'lisitiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elicit
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Examples
- It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Before examining the room I cross-questioned the servants, but only succeeded in eliciting the facts which I have already stated. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A mathematician and experimenter himself, he had a genius for eliciting discussion and research by means o f adroit questions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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