excogitation
Example Sentences
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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
"Yes," agreed the young man, though with a lilt of dubiety, and a frown of excogitation, as if he weren't sure that he had quite caught her drift.
From My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland
When we are alone we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquiry will, sometimes, give way to idleness or satiety.
From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Samuel Johnson
It is often alleged that the circumstances of modern literature do not permit of that leisure which is necessary to the excogitation of a carefully developed technique or a sound style.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
After about half an hour's excogitation, a brilliant idea at last flashed across him; he had found in a tobacconist's window something to write about!
From Philistia by Grant Allen
