noun
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mental activity; thought
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an idea or thought
Etymology
Origin of intellection
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin intellēctiōn- (stem of intellēctiō ); see intellect, -ion
Example Sentences
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In books of the 1920s and ’30s — the Golden Age — one can experience the calm of austere intellection, observe the restoration of order after chaos.
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2020
It’s a ragged chunk of ecstatic cerebral-satirical intellection.
From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2019
The result is not just a greater capacity for intellection but changes to the central nervous system itself—e.g., learning to read permanently alters the way the brain processes language.
From Slate • Sep. 18, 2018
Has the power of that intellection been vacated as well?
From Time • Feb. 14, 2013
But I pray you to instruct me by intellection, Where dwelleth that holy virtue, Confession?
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
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