excogitation

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Truth for him is not to be found at the end of interminable, bed-ridden excogitation.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2012

As in earlier volumes, he papers them over with epigram and excogitation, versiflage and vocabulary.

From Time Magazine Archive

Do not exact from yourself, at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

The comic of Jonson is a scholar's excogitation of the comic; that of Massinger a moralist's.

From Complete Short Works of George Meredith by Meredith, George

The subtiltie of which, no humane excogitation is able to imitate.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert