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• Thus far, my intellect has been able to rise sufficiently to meet every academic challenge that I have encountered.From the entry rise
• By acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.From the entry acuteness
• A whole generation had loved and admired him for his intellect, generosity and grace.2015, Manly Wade Wellman, Giant In Gray: A Biography Of Wade Hampton Of South Carolina. From the entry power in the land
• How much of it was based in emotion and how much was based in intellect?2011 November 9, Susanne Gargiulo, “Emotional intelligence in the workplace”, in CNN. From the entry emotion
• Cold revenge is the union of intellect and hate — the most annihilating of all alliances.2009, Harold C. Goddard, The Meaning of Shakespeare, page 78. From the entry annihilating
• The immaterial nature of the intellect requires that the speculable as such be immaterial.1969, The Thomist, volume XXXIII, page 558. From the entry speculable
• Only the feeblemindednesses, the confusions and most delirious states are predominantly disturbances of intellect.1968, Arthur Percy Noyes, Lawrence Coleman Kolb, Noyes' modern clinical psychiatry, page 102. From the entry feeblemindednesses
• We can achieve this god‐likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato”, in Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92, page…. From the entry strenuous
• He was a stiff-collar, high-headed fellow, of good intellect and had rather a dudish appearance.1938, Charles A. Johnson, A Narrative History of Wise County, Virginia, page 165. From the entry dudish
• She knew she was accepted in the world of culture and of intellect.1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love. From the entry Kulturträger
• The shell-fish Donax deltoideus, commonly called ‘ugari’ in Southern Queensland, seem gifted with intellect or reasoning powers.1917 August 16, The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W.: William Macleod for The Bulletin Newspaper Co. Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22, column 4. From the entry ugari
• Donald's daughter and Svengali Ivanka is a smart, smart, smart lady with an extraordinary intellect and influence on her father.2016 February 2016, in Hugh Hewitt's "Six reasons Trump is still better than Clinton" in the Washington Examiner. From the entry svengali
• For all his scathingness, and despite his unremitting intellect, Mr.2003, Jefferey Simons, Silverpowdered olivetrees: reading Joyce in Spain. From the entry scathingness
• Beyond the smiths were the bookshops, supplying for the intellect the enchantment that the smith supplied for the eye.1988, Harriet Ronken Lynton, Mohini Rajan, “The City”, in The Days of the Beloved, 2nd edition, New Delhi: Orient Longman, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry beloved
• It seems almost like sacrilege to question the tripartite or trilogical division of mind into “intellect, feeling and will.1966, The American Journal of Psychology - Volume 5, page 467. From the entry trilogical
• It is not that the intellect (or syntax!) “spatializes time”.1960 July, Louis O[tto] Mink, “Time, McTaggart and Pickwickian Language”, in A[nthony] D[ouglas] Woozley, editor, The Philosophical…. From the entry connexivity
• Such occupations might have seemed arid to those who did not possess the intellect to appreciate their subtleties.1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 37. From the entry arid
• No mind could understand His Mystery—so long as we mean by a mind a conceptual intellect—and no concepts could apprehend Him.1952, W. T. Stace, Time and Eternity, Princeton, N. J., pages 48–49; quoted in William P. Alston, “Ineffability”, in The Philosophical…. From the entry unconceptualizable
• His intellect possesses a sort of alkahestic quality.1951, Ira Kendrick Stephens, The hermit philosopher of Liendo, page 361. From the entry alkahestic
• For an ordinary intellect, yes, but for me a mere bagatelle, or bag-of-shells, as the ancients have it.1914, Matthew M. Colton, Frank Armstrong at college, page 39. From the entry bag of shells
• Make a note of it: in man’s heaven there are no exercises for the intellect, nothing for it to live upon.c. 1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Letter II”, in Bernard DeVoto, editor, Letters from the Earth, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry bedlam
• The creative intellect is not merely a white still light.1907, Quarterly Newsbook of the Municipal University, volume 1, Municipal University Press, page 130. From the entry propagandum
• Man sees this irrationality only with his intellect.1905, Leo Tolstoy, The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy, page 523. From the entry irrationality
• The spontaneous intellect of man always defines the divine which it feels in ways that harmonise with its temporary intellectual prepossessions.1902, William James, “Lecture XVIII: Philosophy”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.…. From the entry prepossession
• Her pretty face, volumptuous body, and ultra feminine mannerisms belie her intellect, which makes her doubly gifted in the world of fashion and career.2018, Marie Woodruff, So You Want to Be a Haute Couture Fashionista?, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry volumptuous
• While these Treknological wonders were introduced as story devices, they also serve as testaments to Roddenberry's faith in the potential of human intellect.2012, Mark Clark, Star Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the First Voyages of the Starship Enterprise, unnumbered page. From the entry Treknological
• Maldor may been the least powerful of Zokar's apprentices, but he possesses a cunning intellect, and in a wizardless world his abilities were suddenly formidable.2011, Brandon Mull, A World Without Heroes, page 42. From the entry wizardless
• Some came to get rich on their wits and intellect, others on their strength and brawn, toiling from dawn to dusk in soul-crushing labors.2010, Gayle Soucek, Marshall Field's: The Store That Helped Build Chicago, The History Press, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry soul-crushing
• Or is it simply sedative patronisation, bread and circuses devised by a cynical caste of free marketeers who presumptuously underestimate the collective intellect?2009 April 30, Jonathan Meades, “Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Militant Modernism, Owen Hatherley, Zero Books, 146pp, £9.99 [book review]”, in New…. From the entry bread and circuses
• Peter is per se alive, endowed with intellect, and the faculty of laughter, the artist is per se one who fashions objects.a. 2005, Jacques Maritain, An EPZ Introduction to Philosophy, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 153. From the entry per se
• And this is particularly so for many of our women students who have been hustled and snake-oiled to deny the validity of their intellects.1995, Nancy Owen Nelson, editor, Private Voices, Public Lives. From the entry snake-oil
• On the other hand, any being with intellect, will and self-awareness is, by definition, human, whatever its outward appearance or solar system of origin.1994 June 26, Marie Brown Loehr, “Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry Vulcan
• A thing is what the human will, under the influence of the light of the human intellect, overpoweredly judges must be and cannot not be.1984, Peter A. Redpath, “The Epic Begins: Protagoras Redivivus”, in Cartesian Nightmare: An Introduction to Transcendental Sophistry…. From the entry overpoweredly
• In the intellectual there is an attempt to solve this conflict by libidinizing speech, thought and intellect, so that these become instinctual satisfactions within themselves.1953, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 40. From the entry libidinize
• A sin, an instant of rebellious pride of the intellect, made Lucifer and a third part of the cohorts of angels fall from their glory.1916, James Joyce, chapter III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 154. From the entry cohort
• He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work—one of the brightest intellects of the University, but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled.1904 June, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Three Students”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure…. From the entry wayward
• For a beach-girl, the entire experience of the Museum of Future Technology was taxing her intellect: but these new concepts pushed her to the limits of her sanity.2015, Tooty Nolan, Earplug Adventures: Cometh the Earplug, →ISBN. From the entry beach-girl

Meaning of intellect

1. noun The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
2. noun The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).
3. noun A person who has that faculty to a great degree.

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How do you use intellect in a sentence?

Intellect is used as a noun. For example: “Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.”

What is a short sentence with intellect?

“Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.”

What does intellect mean?

Intellect means the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.