envisage
verb (used with object)
to contemplate; visualize.
envisagement
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a word derived from
envisage.
Example Sentences
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I have devoted the week to the envisagement of things, and while I lay awake last night the solution came to me as something final and irrevocable.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
She was no longer so buoyantly superficial in her envisagement of life, and the big things reacted on her in a way which would previously have been impossible.
From The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler
Matthew Arnold would have applauded the envisagement of literature as "criticism of life," but would have deplored the sacrifice of sweetness to gain increased intensity of light.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
There was something impressive in the restrained passion of Elisabeth's speech, a certain primitive grandeur in her envisagement of the relationship of mother and son.
From The Hermit of Far End by Margaret Pedler
The second of these two general qualifications with which we must credit Mr. Belloc is the fact of his envisagement of the possibility of this war.
From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
