conceptive
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The writer of fiction should be warned that it is supremely difficult to avoid becoming artificial and mechanical, and that he will surely become so if he does his conceptive thinking in terms of analysis.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
I have spoken of only the early stage of the activity of the conceptive faculties.
From Household Education by Harriet Martineau
Does not this cast a light upon the conceptive and receptive powers of the eye.
From Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men by John William Harris
The labors of the fiction writer are of two sorts, conceptive and executive.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
Miss Elvira was also in the throes of conceptive genius.
From Blue-grass and Broadway by Maria Thompson Daviess
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