All 5 Uses of
intuition
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- But Phoebe, in order to keep the universe in its old place, was fain to smother, in some degree, her own intuitions as to Judge Pyncheon's character.†
Chpt 8
- It requires intuitive sympathy, like a young girl's, to solve it.†
Chpt 12 *intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
- A mere observer, like myself (who never have any intuitions, and am, at best, only subtile and acute), is pretty certain to go astray.†
Chpt 12
- She was seized with a sudden intuition of some horrible thing.†
Chpt 16intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
- The subtile, intuitive communication, or, rather, the vague and formless impression of something to be told, had made her yield unresistingly to his impulse.†
Chpt 20intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
Definition:
something known based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning; or the ability to know things in such a manner