Definition of reflexion in English:
reflexion
nounrɪˈflɛkʃ(ə)nrəˈflɛkʃən
archaic spelling of reflection
Example sentencesExamples
- I paused and fixed my eyes on her reflexion in the mirror.
- I checked my reflexion in the mirror and smiled to myself.
- Further reflexion and experiment showed me my subject strangled in that extreme of rigour.
- In his ‘Concluding reflexions,’ Bateson made no bones about his belief that the ‘existence of Discontinuity in Variation is therefore proof that the accepted hypothesis is inadequate.’
- In truth, we touch the essence of his reflexion on cinema - as though he had to resort to all the subtleties of reason in order to appease his lamentations.
- Greville explains that incorporating together the power of separate nations would create an ‘uneven balance of State; the very reflexion of scorn between age, and youth.’
- But on reflexion neither of these would been the right way to proceed.
- This should give some motive for reflexion if one recalls Northrop Frye's famous generalization that Canadian literature is, or at least was, a continuous meditation on ‘Where is here?’
- Althought I think it's a nice reflexion on the strength of the team.
- In 1618, Galileo explained some visible comets in a fiery work as reflexions of light, so that nobody believed the Jesuit astronomer Grassi, who realised that the comets were flying bodies.
- By widening the field to include all forms of film experimentation, by tracing a historical line from Marey to today, this book proposes new reflexions.
- The plaintiffs are not portraying any abnormal sensitivity or delicacy in seeking to worship in an atmosphere of quiet and calm reflexion.
- I thought that it was better to have time for reflexion than extra material.
- Tolkien admitted, ‘My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.’
- He looked into the waters and saw her reflexion.
- The writing itself does not resort to much critical reflexion or afterthought.
Definition of reflexion in US English:
reflexion
nounrəˈflekSHənrəˈflɛkʃən
variant spelling of reflection
Example sentencesExamples
- Tolkien admitted, ‘My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.’
- I paused and fixed my eyes on her reflexion in the mirror.
- He looked into the waters and saw her reflexion.
- But on reflexion neither of these would been the right way to proceed.
- Further reflexion and experiment showed me my subject strangled in that extreme of rigour.
- Althought I think it's a nice reflexion on the strength of the team.
- I checked my reflexion in the mirror and smiled to myself.
- I thought that it was better to have time for reflexion than extra material.
- By widening the field to include all forms of film experimentation, by tracing a historical line from Marey to today, this book proposes new reflexions.
- In 1618, Galileo explained some visible comets in a fiery work as reflexions of light, so that nobody believed the Jesuit astronomer Grassi, who realised that the comets were flying bodies.
- In truth, we touch the essence of his reflexion on cinema - as though he had to resort to all the subtleties of reason in order to appease his lamentations.
- The plaintiffs are not portraying any abnormal sensitivity or delicacy in seeking to worship in an atmosphere of quiet and calm reflexion.
- In his ‘Concluding reflexions,’ Bateson made no bones about his belief that the ‘existence of Discontinuity in Variation is therefore proof that the accepted hypothesis is inadequate.’
- Greville explains that incorporating together the power of separate nations would create an ‘uneven balance of State; the very reflexion of scorn between age, and youth.’
- This should give some motive for reflexion if one recalls Northrop Frye's famous generalization that Canadian literature is, or at least was, a continuous meditation on ‘Where is here?’
- The writing itself does not resort to much critical reflexion or afterthought.