Literary notes about Contribute (AI summary)
In literature, "contribute" is employed to express the idea of giving or adding something—whether it be a tangible resource, an opinion, or an element that enhances beauty or meaning—to a larger whole. Authors use the term to indicate shared responsibility or the act of supplementing existing conditions, as when individuals offer portions of straw or funds to support a community venture ([1], [2]). At the same time, it is often used in more abstract or symbolic contexts, such as when contributing to happiness, intellectual improvement, or even the arts and beauty ([3], [4]). In historical and political narratives, the word underscores collective participation and the interdependence of actions that shape common outcomes ([5], [6]). Overall, its diverse usage across genres highlights its flexibility in capturing both practical contributions and efforts toward higher, sometimes moral, ends ([7], [8]).
- Every inhabitant, or at least every householder, had to contribute his share of straw to the pile.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer - We require them to contribute their share in the way of taxes for the support of government, but allow them no voice in its direction.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - I should be too happy, could I ever have it in my power to contribute in the least to it.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson - It opens before us the possibility of making every act of our lives contribute to the glory of God.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer - 1 Paralipomenon Chapter 29 David by word and example encourageth the princes to contribute liberally to the building of the temple.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - All the villages did not contribute their share, but the majority did, though some of them brought only a few baskets.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - Yet I’ll contribute to raise rods on the Himmalehs and Andes, that all the world may be secured; but out on privileges!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville - But it should contribute through the type of intellectual and emotional disposition which it forms to the improvement of those conditions.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey