conception
noun
the act of conceiving; the state of being conceived.
conceptive
-
a word derived from
conception.
Example Sentences
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Now there is nothing in this process which necessarily eludes the conceptive or imagining power of the purely human mind.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
I, H, U, H designates the generative and conceptive Forces, 267-u.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
If he does admit any difference in type, and allows it to influence him, his conceptive faculty will be hampered and that is artistic death.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
It will take a very real degree of courage and perseverance to carry out a course of practice in conceptive and constructive technique long enough to accomplish its end.
From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst
Fixing my mind on a certain object, I strove to call it up in the character, not of an image of the conceptive faculty, but of a fever-vision on the retina.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
