Literary notes about Proposed (AI summary)
In literature, the word "proposed" serves as a versatile device to introduce ideas, plans, or theories, often shaping the course of a narrative or argument. It can denote formal legislative suggestions, as seen when a bill was put forward for an independent government ([1]) or when a new council was recommended ([2]), while also underpinning personal and social decisions such as planning a journey or arranging a social engagement ([3], [4]). Furthermore, authors use "proposed" to frame abstract ideas and hypotheses—whether in the form of philosophical or scientific inquiry ([5], [6], [7])—or to recount traditional and even archaic proposals in historical narratives ([8], [9]). This range, from political and theoretical contexts to everyday conversational proposals ([10], [11], [12]), underlines how the term injects both immediacy and deliberation into the text.
- But the Moro question need not stand in the way of setting up an independent government in the Philippines in 1921, as proposed by his bill.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount - As soon as the Legislature met, therefore, Clinton proposed a new Council of Appointment.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Think over the plan I have proposed for a few hours; and if you can't hit upon a better one we'll adopt it.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy - “I reckon maybe, if you don't mind, I'd like to fix your hair just a little before I let you see it,” she proposed.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter - The explanation of piacular rites which we have proposed enables us to reply to this double question.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim - Now, to explain the universal co-existence of [Pg 49] these two sorts of cults, two contradictory theories have been proposed.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim - But whether the just have a better and happier life than the unjust is a further question which we also proposed to consider.
— from The Republic by Plato - Natheless, be that as it may, I will e'en recount to you that which occurreth to me upon the proposed theme.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio - Other snakes, the best of their kind, proposed, ‘Going, by night, let us steal away the vessel of Soma juice.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - He knew he had blundered in opposing an electoral law, and he now proposed giving the Legislature another opportunity to enact one.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - I proposed to Ada that morning that we should go and see Richard.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens - Soon I proposed a social smoke; and, producing his pouch and tomahawk, he quietly offered me a puff.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
