percipience
Example Sentences
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Readers knew to expect in a Flanigan column percipience and foresight, expressed in graceful, unaffected prose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2021
I said things like “I don’t know how Dad got that idea” and “Dad must have misheard me,” hoping that if I rejected their percipience, they would simply dissipate.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
It was an extraordinary demonstration of scientific percipience, and classic Oppenheimer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
She lay in a state of percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Und dere are fish in der upper tributaries of der Amazon which haf four eyes, der two upper of which are searchlights, der two lower of which are organs of percipience or vision.
From The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson
