I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
life
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In practice active and contemplative life get in each other's way.
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This state is the goal of the contemplative life , if not here, then certainly after death.
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But this is the mistake of ignorance, because they do not know what the contemplative life stands for.
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Again, the evidence of wills indicates increased lay interest in the literature of the contemplative life .
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The bookish, the contemplative life .
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It will cease with time, whereas contemplative life may be begun in time, but it will be perfected beyond it.
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This ideal of an essential continuity between active and contemplative life is often worked out in practice in terms of their opposition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a contemplative life
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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History, the extension of human memory through time, is a contemplative luxury of advanced civilizations.
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The mood is contemplative and cool, even introspective; associations are immediately religious.
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They are all from the contemplative , strict and enclosed Order of the Carmelite in Darlington and are repeating history.
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This ideal of an essential continuity between active and contemplative life is often worked out in practice in terms of their opposition.
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Unlike the contemplative Hawthorne, Dickens could not wait to see the Falls.
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Woosnam and Olazabal have been in more contemplative mood after further moderate performances in New Orleans.
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Yo mumbles to herself at the windows outlining her hairline with a contemplative index finger.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But even though his book was intended for contemplatives, it was also widely read by lay men and women.
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But the best contemplatives are superior to the best actives.
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On the other hand contemplatives are almost always enjoying the embrace of their Beloved.
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Taken together, they resemble the range of altered perceptions reported by yogis, Zen masters, and other contemplatives.
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The contemplatives, however, with whom Scale 2 is chiefly concerned, go further into reformation in feeling.
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They signal this for those who are not contemplatives and reflect it for those who are.
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True there are many actives who are better than some contemplatives.