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cogitation

[koj-i-tey-shuhn] / ˌkɒdʒ ɪˈteɪ ʃən /


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Cogitation is an art that is in drastic decline as we allow technology to do our thinking.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2020

Cogitation, no matter how strenuous, does not help.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund

Cogitation and a certain disquiet were often in her eye when it rested on this devotee.

From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

Father let her go without a Word, and sate in peacefull Cogitation all the Rest of the Evening—the only Person at Leisure in the House.

From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Manning, Anne

By this new Way of Reasoning, the Ground we tread upon, and every Thing around us, hitherto thought Inanimate, may be full of Cogitation.

From Free and Impartial Thoughts, on the Sovereignty of God, The Doctrines of Election, Reprobation, and Original Sin: Humbly Addressed To all who Believe and Profess those Doctrines. by Finch, Richard




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