reasoning
noun
the act or process of a person who reasons.
half-reasoning
-
a word derived from
reasoning.
Example Sentences
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Were it otherwise, indeed, the animal would soon deserve more than the poet's epithet of "half-reasoning."
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
A sort of reasoning devil seems to possess us, to twitch our little morsels of unreasoned consolation, of sanctifying, mystical half-reasoning away from our peace-hungry souls.
From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee
The half-reasoning man arose, and would have moved towards it, but suddenly he stopped rigidly, with white and parted lips and vacantly distended eyeballs.
From A Sappho of Green Springs by Bret Harte
Hence, Pope is not philosophical, when he applies the epithet "half-reasoning" to the elephant.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various
And yet it may be remarked, that such of the lower animals as are guided by pure instinct are greatly more infallible within their proper spheres than the higher, half-reasoning animals.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
