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CONQUEST
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Traducere în limba română
conquest substantiv
1. cucerire; biruinţă, victorie, izbândă; subjugare;
to make a conquest of a cuceri (pe cineva), a câştiga simpatia (cuiva).
2. the (Norman) Conquest (ist.) cucerirea normandă, cucerirea Angliei de către normanzi (1066).
3. cucerire teritorială; ocupare, ocupaţie.
4. teritoriu cucerit.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Edmund would be forgiven for being a clergyman, it seemed, under certain conditions of wealth; and this, she suspected, was all the conquest of prejudice which he was so ready to congratulate himself upon.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
Could he have been satisfied with the conquest of one amiable woman's affections, could he have found sufficient exultation in overcoming the reluctance, in working himself into the esteem and tenderness of Fanny Price, there would have been every probability of success and felicity for him.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)