contemplation

IPA: kɑntʌmpɫˈeɪʃʌn

Examples of "contemplation" in Sentences

The day is spent in worship and contemplation.
Saints have stressed the importance of meditation and contemplation.
Contemplation with the rosary is the next step beyond scriptural meditation.
There's what we call the contemplation of place in our spirituality. posted by pgenrestories at 2:00 PM
This kind of contemplation is to be distinguished from the more open, and more quiet, and more troubling introverted contemplation that Hartman describes.
Thus we use the word contemplation so people might know we are talking about a totally different operating system, different software where the private self is not the center of attention and interpretation.
It seems clear that the recess appointment clause was written in contemplation of a different time — one in which Congress was not in constant session and where they were actually out of town more often than they were in session.
The percipient who settles for contemplation is unable to experience art in quite this active way, but neither is the one driven by the sheer desire for beauty, who is willing to sacrifice the particularity of the work for the abstractly sensual, nor the "investigator," who, in his/her preference for "data" or illustration can only be impatient with the "uniqueness of the object perceived."