Contributes

Examples

• The decorum or indecorum of a quality, with regard to the age, or character, or station, contributes also to its praise or blame. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Thus in aiming at the increase of his own private pleasurable states of consciousness, he contributes to the consciousness of others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The peerage contributes more four-wheeled affliction than has ever been seen in that neighbourhood. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This evil is totally different from the first: in one case divorce contributes to prostitution, in the other, prostitution leads to divorce. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Whatever contributes to lessen these privations, if at little cost, should merit special attention. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This buttermilk contributes somewhat to the flavor, but at the same time furnishes a ferment which ultimately spoils the butter by making it rancid. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The oil, which is extracted from the liver, is of great medicinal value, and contributes considerably to the high economic value of the cod. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And good fortune frequently contributes to all this, by discovering the effects that result from the different mixtures and combinations of bodies. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Every province necessarily contributes, more or less, to increase the expense of that general government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Each contributes to the others only externally and accidentally. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Each of them, however, taken singly, contributes often but a very small share to the maintenance of any individual of this greater number. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But there is another principle that contributes to the same effect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But the herring-bus bounty contributes to no such good purpose. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Typist: Montague