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Definition of Comprehensions
1. comprehension [n] - See also: comprehension
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comprehensions
Literary usage of Comprehensions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1847)
"And therefore the briefest comprehensions of faith have always included the Holy
Ghost, and some (a) concluded with it. Secondly, It is necessary to believe ..."
2. The Arians of the Fourth Century by John Henry Newman (1876)
"To attempt comprehensions of opinion, amiable as the motive frequently is, is to
mistake arrangements of words, which have no existence except on paper, ..."
3. An Historical Sketch of the Art of Caricaturing by James Peller Malcolm (1813)
"And first we should observe that, for causes which have their origin far above
our limited comprehensions, whole nations appear to others assemblages of ..."
4. The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, D.D. Sometime by William Laud, William Scott, James Bliss (1857)
"My comprehensions, as narrow as they are, are yet as large as God hath been ...
And therefore certainly my comprehensions are not so narrow as theirs, ..."
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