Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act or state of contemplating.
  • noun Thoughtful observation or study.
  • noun Meditation on spiritual matters, especially as a form of devotion.
  • noun Intention or expectation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of looking attentively or steadfastly at anything.
  • noun The act of holding an idea continuously before the mind; mental vision; the thinking long of anything in a somewhat passive way.
  • noun Continued or steadfast thinking in general, without reference to a particular object; musing; reverie.
  • noun Religious meditation.
  • noun The act of intending, purposing, or considering, with a view to carrying into effect; expectation with intention.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.
  • noun obsolete Holy meditation.
  • noun The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
  • noun to inted or purpose, or to have under consideration.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.
  • noun Holy meditation.
  • noun The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a long and thoughtful observation
  • noun a calm, lengthy, intent consideration

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Examples

  • Thus we use the word contemplation so people might know we are talking about a totally different operating system, different software where the private self is not the center of attention and interpretation.

    Fr. Richard Rohr: Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God Fr. Richard Rohr 2011

  • Thus we use the word contemplation so people might know we are talking about a totally different operating system, different software where the private self is not the center of attention and interpretation.

    Fr. Richard Rohr: Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God Fr. Richard Rohr 2011

  • Thus we use the word contemplation so people might know we are talking about a totally different operating system, different software where the private self is not the center of attention and interpretation.

    Fr. Richard Rohr: Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God Fr. Richard Rohr 2011

  • Thus we use the word contemplation so people might know we are talking about a totally different operating system, different software where the private self is not the center of attention and interpretation.

    Fr. Richard Rohr: Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God Fr. Richard Rohr 2011

  • There's what we call the contemplation of place in our spirituality. posted by pgenrestories at 2:00 PM

    Q&A With Writer Fr. Uwem Akpan, S.J. 2010

  • There's what we call the contemplation of place in our spirituality. posted by pgenrestories at 2:00 PM

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • This kind of contemplation is to be distinguished from the more open, and more quiet, and more troubling introverted contemplation that Hartman describes.

    'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth 2001

  • The percipient who settles for contemplation is unable to experience art in quite this active way, but neither is the one driven by the sheer desire for beauty, who is willing to sacrifice the particularity of the work for the abstractly sensual, nor the "investigator," who, in his/her preference for "data" or illustration can only be impatient with the "uniqueness of the object perceived."

    March 2010 2010

  • The percipient who settles for contemplation is unable to experience art in quite this active way, but neither is the one driven by the sheer desire for beauty, who is willing to sacrifice the particularity of the work for the abstractly sensual, nor the "investigator," who, in his/her preference for "data" or illustration can only be impatient with the "uniqueness of the object perceived."

    Subject-Matter 2010

  • It seems clear that the recess appointment clause was written in contemplation of a different time — one in which Congress was not in constant session and where they were actually out of town more often than they were in session.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Recess Appointments to Art. III Courts, 1789–2004 2010

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    May 2, 2008

  • One as a neophyte I offer no criticism only a greeting and thank you for having me and here is a bit of Haiku for you;

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