excogitation
Example Sentences
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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
The excogitation of this took long, partly because his mind was greatly exercised in the matter, and partly through a nervous desire to postpone the difficult moment.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
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 Grant Allen
In the excogitation of careful rules and the deft carrying out of those rules no literature can on the whole approach this except Greek.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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 Lewis Spence
