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insight

Definitions

noun

  1. a feeling of understanding
  2. clear or deep perception of a situation
  3. the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation
  4. grasping the inner nature of things intuitively

Examples

Although Jameson is clear-eyed about the corrosive effects of modernity, his methodology nevertheless seemed to require his allegiance to secularization and to convergence theories of modernization; moreover, the acuity and insight of the readings produced by this methodology served to justify that faith a posteriori.

This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.

Get an up close insight on the early song writing technics that produced several timeless Lynyrd Skynyrd Albums.

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incite

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verb

  1. urge on; cause to act
  2. give an incentive for action
  3. provoke or stir up

Examples

Let's try using the laws on incitement to racial or religious hatred.

She incited racial hatred by distributing anti-Semitic leaflets.

And then the flesh, as it is the greatest retardment in good, it is the greatest incitement to evil, it is a bosom enemy, that betrays us to Satan, it is near us and connatural to us.

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