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- noun Plural form of
contemplative .
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Examples
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And third: we are made to be what I'd call 'contemplatives'.
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Thus those are not termed "contemplatives" who merely contemplate, but they who devote their lives to contemplation.
On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907
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When writing to "contemplatives" absorbed in the ecstasies and trials of the interior life, her habitual warnings are against excess, her constant plea, as here, for a perception of relative values.
Letters of Catherine Benincasa of Siena Catherine 1363
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GPIW had arranged gatherings with Egyptian activists and similar contemplatives with the intent to participate in shepherding the healing efforts in Egypt.
Sahar Taman: Egyptians have No Intention of Allowing their Revolution to be Hijacked Sahar Taman 2011
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Activists would join contemplatives in the ancient disciplines of stillness, meditation and contemplation -- all of which would kindle a cool fire enflamed with contentment, resolve, conviction and compassion.
Charles Redfern: Puff And Bluster At Armageddon Charles Redfern 2011
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Activists would join contemplatives in the ancient disciplines of stillness, meditation and contemplation -- all of which would kindle a cool fire enflamed with contentment, resolve, conviction and compassion.
Charles Redfern: Puff And Bluster At Armageddon Charles Redfern 2011
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Activists would join contemplatives in the ancient disciplines of stillness, meditation and contemplation -- all of which would kindle a cool fire enflamed with contentment, resolve, conviction and compassion.
Charles Redfern: Puff And Bluster At Armageddon Charles Redfern 2011
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Activists would join contemplatives in the ancient disciplines of stillness, meditation and contemplation -- all of which would kindle a cool fire enflamed with contentment, resolve, conviction and compassion.
Charles Redfern: Puff And Bluster At Armageddon Charles Redfern 2011
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I'd suggest the old fashioned way: the way contemplatives have answered tough questions for millennia.
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I'd suggest the old fashioned way: the way contemplatives have answered tough questions for millennia.
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