Literary notes about Associate (AI summary)
The term “associate” functions as a multifaceted connector in literature, serving to link ideas, people, and qualities in diverse ways. It can denote a deliberate choice of companionship or avoidance—as when connections with tyrants are either minimized or enjoyed [1]—or be used to fuse distinct intellectual realms, such as uniting science with literature [2]. It also describes the bonding of emotions to words or the conjuring of memories, highlighting how particular feelings become intertwined with language [3]. In social and professional contexts, “associate” identifies relationships ranging from casual allegiances to formal partnerships, whether in the circles of actors [4], justices [5], or literary colleagues [6]. Additionally, the word extends to abstract linkages, suggesting that ideas and qualities are often conjoined in the mind, such as pairing virtue with elevation [7] or contrasting social classes [8]. This versatility demonstrates how writers deploy “associate” to emphasize both the literal and metaphorical interrelations that shape human thought and experience.
- Also, that we ought to associate with tyrants either as little as possible, or else as pleasantly as possible.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius - This helpful associate is the science of comparative anatomy.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - After a few repetitions she came to associate the word with the feeling.
— from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller - I am beginning to associate with actors.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells - The newly arrived Chief and Associate Justices of the Territory, and other machinery of the government, were domiciled with less splendor.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain - At twenty-one became Chicago newspaper reporter, and later, associate editor, Popular Mechanics.
— from The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story - Hence it proceeds, that we associate, in a manner, the idea of whatever is good with that of height, and evil with lowness.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - "But I ain't going to associate with them on earth whatever I may have to do in heaven.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery
