intellection
Origin of intellection
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How to use intellection in a sentence
I came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre].
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination | Mindy Farabee | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn fact the process of intellection has to pass several stages from sense perception through imagination.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac HusikIntellect and intellection signify to the common ear consideration of abstract truth.
Essays, First Series | Ralph Waldo EmersonWith the rising level of Faculty engendered by progressive evolution, woman's powers of intellection have developed too.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella KenealyThis, of course, is equivalent to postulating the cerebral cortex as the exclusive seat of higher intellection.
A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) | Henry Smith Williams
Nevertheless Intelligence possesses fulness and true intellection, because it immediately participates in the Good.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 | Plotinos (Plotinus)
British Dictionary definitions for intellection
/ (ˌɪntɪˈlɛkʃən) /
mental activity; thought
an idea or thought
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