envisagement
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She was no longer so buoyantly superficial in her envisagement of life, and the big things reacted on her in a way which would previously have been impossible.
From The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler
There was something impressive in the restrained passion of Elisabeth's speech, a certain primitive grandeur in her envisagement of the relationship of mother and son.
From The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler
The second of these two general qualifications with which we must credit Mr. Belloc is the fact of his envisagement of the possibility of this war.
From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Matthew Arnold would have applauded the envisagement of literature as "criticism of life," but would have deplored the sacrifice of sweetness to gain increased intensity of light.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Remained his envisagement of England—England!—standing four-square to her enemies, but standing as some huge and splendid animal something bewildered by the fury of the onset upon it.
From If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
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