Construation
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act or process of construing. countable, nonstandard, rare, uncountable
"At the level of perception the ideas or notions resulting from such construations are not simple nor accurate, but they can become so by further cognizing operations. […] aggressive, retreative, or indifferent; and functions for evaluative construations, or as Reid calls its for matters of taste, as in aesthetic appreciation, and perhaps even for moral and religious appreciation."
Example
More examples"At the level of perception the ideas or notions resulting from such construations are not simple nor accurate, but they can become so by further cognizing operations. […] aggressive, retreative, or indifferent; and functions for evaluative construations, or as Reid calls its for matters of taste, as in aesthetic appreciation, and perhaps even for moral and religious appreciation."
Etymology
From construe + -ation.
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