intellection
Example Sentences
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Trethewey’s memoir is a controlled burn of chaos and intellection; it’s a memoir that will really lay you out.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2020
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
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
