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  • noun Plural form of ponderer.

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Examples

  • Quirks and Quarks guide to space: bite-sized answers to the massive questions of inquisitive astronomical ponderers

    Boing Boing 2008

  • I have ever observed, my lord, that even in their deepest lucubrations, the profoundest, frankest, ponderers always reserve a vast deal of precious thought for their own private behoof.

    Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

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    Business Opportunities Weblog 2009

  • What is intended by the frequent repetition of this gross sophistry, or what success with the intelligent Christian ponderers of things he can hope for thereby, I am not able to guess; neither is any improvement in the least given to what the intendment of this argument is, so far as the “common doctrine of perseverance” is concerned therein, from the comparison ensuing instituted between the growth of corn and the walking of believers in obedience before God: for notwithstanding the identity in respect of the comparison of that expression “irresistible,” which indeed is proper to neither, there is a wide difference between the growing of corn in a mere natural way, and the moral actings of an intelligent, rational creature.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

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