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Reflect

verb

(past & past part. reflected; pres. part. reflecting)

Manifest or bring back.

Reflect deeply on a subject. Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, ruminate, speculate, think over. "Philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years" , "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

To throw or bend back (from a surface). Synonym: reverberate.

Be bright by reflecting or casting light. Synonym: shine.

Show an image of.

Give evidence of a certain behavior.

Give evidence of the quality of.

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— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... fostering literary, dramatic and debating societies where not alone the practical art of speaking is developed, but the social amenities of good society are practised, that the young priest can be equipped to efficiently discharge the high office awaiting him, and so reflect a lasting credit on the Church of God at ...

— The Young Priest's Keepsake • Michael Phelan

... not by Phidias nor by Praxiteles, it may not even be Greek; it may be some cheap copy, made for a garden or a bath, in the days of Hadrian. But to the artist of the fifteenth century it is the revelation of a whole world, a world in itself. We can scarcely realize all this; but let us look and reflect, and even we may feel as must have felt the man of the Renaissance in the presence of that mutilated, stained, battered torso. He sees in that broken stump a grandeur of outline, a magnificence of osseous ...

— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various

... few mornings before. The returned soldier had gained in health, but not in spirits. The rapture of reaching home once more, the flush of hope and happiness, had passed away with the visitors who had flocked to offer their congratulations. He had had time to reflect: he had reached home, indeed; but now every moment reminded him how soon that home was to be taken from him. He looked at his wife and children, and clenched his teeth hard to stifle the emotions that arose at the thought of their future. The sweet serenity, the faith and patience ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 • Various

... overlooked need not despair for that reason, if he will reflect that criticism can neither make nor unmake authors; that there have not been greater books since criticism became an art than there were before; that in fact the greatest books seem to ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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