Conceives
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Examples
- A young man naturally conceives an aversion to labour, when for a long time he receives no benefit from it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The day is not yet far spent when he conceives it to be necessary that her rooms should be prepared for her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When Woodrow Wilson argues that social problems are not susceptible to treatment in a party program, he must mean only one thing: that they cannot be handled by the state as he conceives it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He conceives an idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The imagination conceives the simple object at once, with facility, by a single effort of thought, without change or variation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Prince John's face flushed with the pride of a spoilt child, who has undergone what it conceives to be an insult. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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