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

  • "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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