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
Your sense of humour, that delicate percipience of proportion, that subrident check on impulse, that touch of the divine fellowship with human frailty, is a thing of mellower growth.
From The Fortunate Youth by Locke, William John
