Lexicographical Neighbors of Impercipience
Literary usage of Impercipience
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1915)
"All their movements are but an Emerging with blind gropes from impercipience By
random sequence—luckless, tragic chance. Of fatalism there is plenty: Ere ..."
2. The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic Mechanism by Carl Snyder (1907)
"Alike they recognised the impercipience of the unknowable, which apparently the
most of minds that betake themselves to metaphysics never can. ..."
3. The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts by Thomas Hardy (1904)
"The cognizance ye mourn, Life's doom to feel, If I report it meetly, came unmeant,
Emerging with blind gropes from impercipience By random sequence—luckless ..."
4. Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm (1911)
"... sententious Oover we know best, Oover for whom Max Beerbohm has defied the
English rule of impercipience, to whose exact idiom he has actually listened. ..."
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