envisagement

Example Sentences

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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)

I have devoted the week to the envisagement of things, and while I lay awake last night the solution came to me as something final and irrevocable.

From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by Locke, William John

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

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

Yet the episodic in his hands has ever its use for psychologic envisagement.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard