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

And we now come to other cases, where the percipience has been collective, although it has not been repeated.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Perhaps Thy ancient rote-restricted ways    Thy ripening rule transcends;    That listless effort tends To grow percipient with advance of days,    And with percipience mends.

From Poems of the Past and the Present by Hardy, Thomas