Definition of Contemplations

1. Noun. (plural of contemplation) ¹

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Definition of Contemplations

1. contemplation [n] - See also: contemplation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contemplations

contemnors
contemns
contemper
contemperature
contempered
contempering
contempers
contemplance
contemplatable
contemplate
contemplated
contemplaters
contemplates
contemplating
contemplation
contemplations
contemplatist
contemplatists
contemplatively
contemplativeness
contemplatives
contemplator
contemplators
contempo
contemporalities
contemporality
contemporaneity
contemporaneous
contemporaneously

Literary usage of Contemplations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1839)
"BOOK I. CHAPTER I. Contemplations on Time, and of the State of Martin this Life. ALL philosophers which have thought of the nature of time, and which, ..."

2. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"Most excellent Prince,—According to the true duty of a servant, I intended all my Contemplations to your now glorious brother, of sweet and sorrowful memory ..."

3. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... because they are yet fresh' in every man's memory, and for that a final period has not hitherto been put unto them; Contemplations LIFE AND DEATH; ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In the "Spiritual Exercises" the repetition of previous meditations consists in affective prayer, and the exercises of the second week, the contemplations ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"In 1848 he printed ' A Letter ti> Joshua Watson, Esq.,' in which he proved (what had not been before remarked) that the ' Contemplations on the Stete of Man ..."

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