intellection

Example Sentences

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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

This is a big spread, in other words, an ambitious platter of intellection and emotion.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2016

Has the power of that intellection been vacated as well?

From Time • Feb. 14, 2013

This will, determining Him to the exercise of intellection, to thought, to frame the Idea of the Universe, caused the Power in Him to excite the intellectual Faculty to exercise, and was that Power.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert