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
But inert and inadequate in muscular action, it is negative in intellection.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
