contemplation

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[ UK /kˌɒntɪmplˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌkɑntəmˈpɫeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a long and thoughtful observation
  2. a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
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How To Use contemplation In A Sentence

  • Old deliberate contemplations, perceptions after long regard ingathered from abundant nature, theories leisurely compacted in sunshine or storm, to stand in the fields of memory, crowned with beauty by the indulgent years. Apologia Diffidentis
  • Very soon they had passed from the realisation that in them and through them a new world of giantry shaped itself in the earth, from the contemplation of the great struggle between big and little, in which they were clearly destined to participate, to interests at once more personal and more spacious. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
  • One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms. Chapter 15
  • In no other situation is the contemplation of living and dying so intertwined with love and sex.
  • For sources that give contemplations on two stages of bones, the whole skeleton and the disjointed bones are designated as distinct objects for meditation in two sequential stages.
  • Damages are assessed on the basis of the damage naturally arising from the breach and in the contemplation of the parties.
  • It ends 16 hours later with compline, after which the monks return to their cells for contemplation, prayer and sleep.
  • The interior has been designed to engage viewers in contemplation of the diverse approaches to spirituality worldwide.
  • He swung from contemplation of the resurrected warrior, standing as still as stone against the canescent wall in the same spot to which Naipal had at last commanded him on the previous night. Conan The Victorious
  • He balances imaginative contemplation of Christ's Passion with calls to ascetic efforts, regarding each as balancing and correcting the dangers of the other.
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