meditation
/mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/ nom B1En français : méditation
- A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.
- Any of various types of achieving more or less altered states of consciousness, such as vacancy of mind or prolonged contemplation on a single sensation or thought, through relaxed or focused mental and physical activity generally of a nonstrenuous and non–substance-induced nature.
- A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject. · Her book is less a cookbook than a meditation on the craft of cookery.
- A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
- Careful and thorough thought. · deep meditation· in meditation
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Dans la bibliothèque
Elizabeth awoke the next morning to the same thoughts and meditations which had at length closed her eyes.
Sherlock Holmes had pushed away his untasted breakfast and lit the unsavoury pipe which was the companion of his deepest meditations.
After continuing some time in profound meditation, the young man suddenly exclaimed, “I have found what you were in search of!”
“There is,” said he, at the end of his meditations, “a clever maxim, which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.
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