Assigns
[ə'sainz]
Examples
- And thus the whole State will grow up in a noble order, and the several classes will receive the proportion of happiness which nature assigns to them. Plato. The Republic.
- Lyell asks, and assigns certain reasons in answer, why have not seals and bats given birth on such islands to forms fitted to live on the land? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- What joy they take in the toils she assigns! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- One accepts, for the most part, the studies of the existing course and then assigns values to them as a sufficient reason for their being taught. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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