envisagement

Example Sentences

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I have devoted the week to the envisagement of things, and while I lay awake last night the solution came to me as something final and irrevocable.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John

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 Pedler, Margaret

Yet the episodic in his hands has ever its use for psychologic envisagement.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard

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 Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

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 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)