Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who engages in contemplation or reflection; one who meditates or studies. One who merely observes affairs, without taking part in them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who contemplates.
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- noun One who
contemplates
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Examples
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Nor is it really change to turn from the self to the constituents of self or from those constituents to the self; and in this case the contemplator is the total; the duality has become unity.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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There will not even be memory of the personality; no thought that the contemplator is the self — Socrates, for example — or that it is Intellect or Soul.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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N|om wakes up the sitting meditator, ignites the passive contemplator, and supercharges the quiet pilgrim.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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N|om wakes up the sitting meditator, ignites the passive contemplator, and supercharges the quiet pilgrim.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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This ambivalence can be confusing and I often hear the contemplator say that he or she is waiting for a sign or waiting until the "knowledge" that it's time to leave is present.
Susan Pease Gadoua: Knowing If You Should Stay In Your Marriage Susan Pease Gadoua 2011
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It would still not be as engaging or "up with people" posture, but he was a contemplator.
Controversy over Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Anxious Black Woman 2008
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The shape of the Tower represents the gate of the eternal present which rests in balance between the future and the past between the contemplator and the contemplated.
I Ching…influences for the day. In harmony with nature… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008
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Therefore, the hexagram refers to both the contemplator and contemplation.
I Ching…influences for the day. In harmony with nature… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008
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In the future, says Robert Reich, the former Labor secretary who's arguably the nation's foremost contemplator of the future of work, we won't be able to classify workers under the blue-collar/white-collar division of yore.
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Although no absolute satisfaction is given to philosophy, either to circumscribe the cause or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable ecstasies caused by these decompositions of force terminating in unity.
Les Miserables 2008
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