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the crinoline certainly bore a symbolic relation to the age in which it thrived. In one of its aspects it symbolized female fertility, as an expansion of the apparent size of the hips always seems to do. This was an age of big families, and since the rate of infant mortality was not quite so high as it had been in previous periods, the population of England expanded rapidly.what is mean bore in this pragraph. How can we  write the first sentence in another way, and I cant get any clue about "the population of England expanded rapidly" how it is  relevant with the paragraph meaning.

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I think of "to bear" in this sense as "to carry."

The right to bear arms.

A bears a relation to B.

A brings with it a relation to B.

A carries a relation to B.

A has a relation to B.

"Bore" is the past tense of "bear."
He bears me no malice.
He bore me no malice.

Anonymouswhat is mean bore in this pragraph. How can we write the first sentence in another way, and I cant get any clue about "the population of England expanded rapidly" how it is relevant with the paragraph meaning.

The logical development of the paragraph seems very loose.

Crinolines make the hips look bigger.
This suggests female fertility.
People had big families. (But children often died in the past.)
But later, not so many children died.
Since couples continued to have large families, and fewer children died, the population grew rapidly.

AnonymousThe crinoline certainly bore a symbolic relation to the age in which it thrived.

In this country at this time there was a certain way of life and a certain way of thinking about things, and the very popular crinoline seemed to fit in as a kind of representation of these things.

This is just a vague topic sentence. The explanation follows.

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