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
It’s a ragged chunk of ecstatic cerebral-satirical intellection.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2019
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
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, faith, confession and acknowledgment of God—while nature is devoid of all these.
From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá
