percipience

Example Sentences

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Readers knew to expect in a Flanigan column percipience and foresight, expressed in graceful, unaffected prose.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2021

It was an extraordinary demonstration of scientific percipience, and classic Oppenheimer.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

I said things like “I don’t know how Dad got that idea” and “Dad must have misheard me,” hoping that if I rejected their percipience, they would simply dissipate.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

She lay in a state of percipience without volition, and the rustle of the straw and the cutting of the ears by the others had the weight of bodily touches.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas

But move That scoped above percipience, Sire, It cannot be!

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas