excogitation

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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

As in earlier volumes, he papers them over with epigram and excogitation, versiflage and vocabulary.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Allen, Grant

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 Spence, Lewis

The principles of analysis which he was charged with having borrowed without acknowledgment from Schlegel, with whose Shakespearian theories he was at the time entirely unacquainted, were in fact of his own excogitation.

From English Men of Letters: Coleridge by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)