intellection
Example Sentences
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Trethewey’s memoir is a controlled burn of chaos and intellection; it’s a memoir that will really lay you out.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
In books of the 1920s and ’30s — the Golden Age — one can experience the calm of austere intellection, observe the restoration of order after chaos.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2020
The result is not just a greater capacity for intellection but changes to the central nervous system itself—e.g., learning to read permanently alters the way the brain processes language.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2018
Has the power of that intellection been vacated as well?
From Time ● Feb. 14, 2013
Religion is not intellection, for no one has ever been able to formulate a creed that is common to all religions.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
