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intelligent

noun C2
  1. A member of the intelligentsia; an intelligent person.

Plural intelligents

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Ali turned his intelligent countenance towards the boy, on whom he gazed without any apparent emotion; but the spasmodic working of the nostrils showed to the practiced eye of Monte Cristo that the Arab had been wounded to the heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 497 · C1
Renée regarded him with fond affection; and certainly his handsome features, lit up as they then were with more than usual fire and animation, seemed formed to excite the innocent admiration with which she gazed on her graceful and intelligent lover.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 53 · C1
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
Pride and Prejudice, p. 280 · B2
While affecting to be deeply engaged in examining the ladder, the mind of Dantès was, in fact, busily occupied by the idea that a person so intelligent, ingenious, and clear-sighted as the abbé might probably be able to solve the dark mystery of his own misfortunes, where he himself could see nothing.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 159 · C1

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