Contemplation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTEMPLATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• concentration on spiritual things as a form of private devotion
• the action of looking thoughtfully at something for a long time
• deep reflective thought
• the state of being considered or planned
• religious meditation.
• a form of Christian prayer or meditation in which a person seeks to pass beyond mental images and concepts to a direct experience of the divine.
• The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.
• Holy meditation.
• The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
• a long and thoughtful observation
• a calm, lengthy, intent consideration

Words related to CONTEMPLATION

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Words that contain CONTEMPLATION

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How to use CONTEMPLATION in a sentence

• They did not want to keep back from the Government or the public a single step they had in contemplation even as a remote contingency.
• But is it not too late? Am I not overwhelmed? I feel that life is a revolting subject of contemplation in my circumstances, a poor thing to look forward to.
• With regard to the negotiation, I can derive not the smallest hopes of success from a contemplation of the past conduct, or of the present principles, of the government of France.
• Oh, how great will be the harmony among mankind! I lose myself in this contemplation.
• Yet I am impressed by it, I must admit, as was our adopted fellow-citizen by the contemplation of Niagara.
• Religion has its proper end in contemplation and in conduct.
• Fool, again! I noiselessly kissed, while pretending to smell them, had them placed on a stand within reach, and fell into a state of quiet and agreeable contemplation.
• Thus the prospect of stretching myself out on a slippery path, with a stone for my pillow, and the contemplation of my miseries for my supper, was anything but agreeable.
• Her wonder and perplexity came over a contemplation of the quality of that love.
• He had, however, in the contemplation of what he was gaining, fallen into anxiety about what he might be losing.
• And whilst he was thus earnestly taken up in Contemplation, sometimes all manner of Beings whatsoever would be quite out of his Mind and Thoughts, except his own Being only.
• Perhaps, instead of what was then in contemplation, a separation of the Union, which has been so much the topic to the eastward of late, may be the thing aimed at.
• The contemplation of this Divine subject seems to me to belong in a special way to my little sister, truly the sister of my soul.
• In the contemplation of death, hitherto, fancy inspired by fear has been by far too much the prominent faculty and impulse.
• The future of Palestine with its wealth of Biblical history is a wonderful theme for contemplation.
• It is one of the high services of true art to lead the mind to the contemplation, to the love and the better understanding, of the works of creation.
• The Contemplation of the Divine Being, and the Exercise of Virtue, are in their own Nature so far from excluding all Gladness of Heart, that they are perpetual Sources of it.
• There remains nothing except philosophical contemplation.
• She shrank from the thought of them as purity shrinks instinctively from the contemplation of evil.
• A light seemed to shine from these faces as if the contemplation of God had illumined them.
• No spirit less intense, no spirit nurtured in the contemplation of things terrestrial, could ever have done it.
• Their music is a concord of sweet melodies, illustrating the peace and happiness which a contemplation of the religious life affords.
• He had sagacity enough to cultivate assiduously the acquaintance of Johnson, and his faculties were gradually enlarged by the contemplation of such a model.
• But the objection to this is, that the device is traced back earlier than the Lancastrian usurpation can be supposed to have been in contemplation.
• At last it enjoys a mood of happy Contemplation of the past with bright prospects for the future.

Similar words containing NTEMPLA without suffix tion and without prefix co

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