Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Consideration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Careful consideration; pondering.
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- noun obsolete Careful
consideration ; pondering.
Etymologies
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See perpend.
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Examples
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"Well," said Mr. Elkins, with an air of judicial perpension, "if you had asked me about it, I should have said that, if you wanted to stay poor, you could have held your own better by staying in Pleasant Valley
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Herbert Quick 1893
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