envisagement

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And yet, paramount in her envisagement of such a tragedy was the idea of a public proclamation of the cause of England in which he died.

From The Red Planet by Locke, William John

So long as men are subject to the exclusive habit of condemning and praising and analyzing and classifying, they are incapable of a free envisagement and expression.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.

She was no longer so buoyantly superficial in her envisagement of life, and the big things reacted on her in a way which would previously have been impossible.

From The Hermit of Far End by Pedler, Margaret

Remained his envisagement of England—England!—standing four-square to her enemies, but standing as some huge and splendid animal something bewildered by the fury of the onset upon it.

From If Winter Comes by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)

The second of these two general qualifications with which we must credit Mr. Belloc is the fact of his envisagement of the possibility of this war.

From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)