percipience

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Other creatures, he notes, share in his sensations; but, so far as he can discover, not in his percipience --or not in any degree worth measuring.

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  • Her percipience is frightening and her humour prodigious. —  The Saltmarsh Murders - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 04 - 1945
  • Daniel - I love your blogs, and admire your seemingly single-handed struggle to inform us about the increasingly antidemocratic antics in the EUSSR enormously, but have never understood how you could square your percipience with being an Obamapologist. —  Telegraph Blogs
  • Other creatures, he notes, share in his sensations; but, so far as he can discover, not in his percipience --or not in any degree worth measuring. —  On The Art of Reading
  • Ere they percipience can claim of what I'm up —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • Other creatures, he notes, share in his sensations; but, so far as he can discover, not in his percipience —  On The Art of Reading
 

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  1. = Italian percepenza, from Middle Latin *percipientia (?), from Latin percipien(t-)s, perceiving: see percipient.
 

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