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

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

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

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Concede intellectual power, or the spiritual element, then add this temperament, and there follows a certain subtile, penetrative, radical quality of thought, a characteristic percipience of principles.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various

The question of the true import of collectivity of percipience renews in another form that problem of invasion to which our evidence so often brings us back.

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