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
If “Once in the West” has a near-masterpiece it is “The Preacher Addresses the Seminarians,” a longish poem about skepticism and intellection and boredom and things beyond our understanding that lets fly these lines:
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2014
Has the power of that intellection been vacated as well?
From Time • Feb. 14, 2013
Man is endowed with ideal virtues, for example intellection, volition,—among them faith, confession and acknowledgment of God, while nature is devoid of all these.
From Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá
