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Consideration

noun

The process of giving careful thought to something.

Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision. Synonyms: circumstance, condition.

A discussion of a topic (as in a meeting).

Kind and considerate regard for others. Synonyms: considerateness, thoughtfulness.

A fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone. Synonym: retainer.

A considerate and thoughtful act. Synonym: thoughtfulness.

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"Consideration" Quotes from Famous Books

... you. He neither believes nor disbelieves. He said to me that if you wanted consideration, to command him, for in Chaudiere he had heard nothing but good of you. If you stayed, he would see that you had justice—not persecution. I ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... House if he be not legitimate. And if the gentleman agrieved seek his remedy against the sheriff in Westminster-Hall, and the proofs be so palpable, that the King's Bench cannot invent how to do him injustice, yet the major part of the twelve judges shall upon better consideration vacate the sheriff's fine and reverse the judgement; but those of them that dare dissent from their brethren are in danger to be turned off the bench without any cause assigned. While men therefore care not thus how they get into the House ...

— Andrew Marvell • Augustine Birrell

... and yet we know absolutely nothing of their existence." Another says: "Some students of the occult find it difficult to grasp the idea of a number of manifestations, each having its own rate of vibration, occupying the same point of space at the same time. A slight consideration of the phenomena of the physical world would perhaps aid such persons in assimilating the concept in question. For instance, as every student of physics knows, a single point of space may contain at the same time vibrations of heat, light of many shades, magnetism ...

— Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers • Bhakta Vishita

... three subjects for consideration arising from the words of my text: The Bridegroom; the presence of the Bridegroom; the joy of the ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

... pernicious influence on the public happiness is the last consideration in the character of Mahomet. The most bitter or most bigoted of his Christian or Jewish foes will surely allow that he assumed a false commission to inculcate a salutary doctrine, less perfect only than ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon

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