intellection

Example Sentences

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In books of the 1920s and ’30s — the Golden Age — one can experience the calm of austere intellection, observe the restoration of order after chaos.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2020

The result is not just a greater capacity for intellection but changes to the central nervous system itself—e.g., learning to read permanently alters the way the brain processes language.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2018

If “Once in the West” has a near-masterpiece it is “The Preacher Addresses the Seminarians,” a longish poem about skepticism and intellection and boredom and things beyond our understanding that lets fly these lines:

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2014

Has the power of that intellection been vacated as well?

From Time • Feb. 14, 2013

There is, in human intellection, no real standard to judge by, but our acceptance, for the present, is that the more nearly positive will prevail.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles