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/rˌumɪnˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Rumination n.

The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud. "Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward to chew it."

The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection. "Retiring full of rumination sad."

(Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rumination" Quotes from Famous Books

... He fell into rumination again. What would she say to his marriage? He had a misgiving she would take it rather hardly. She had not been so rapturously in love with miladi of late, but since the death of her husband, the rather noisy glee of the child had annoyed her. She would be better ...

— A Little Girl in Old Quebec • Amanda Millie Douglas

... these truths through a second process by meditation on them, so that they may turn into nourishment and make flesh. 'He that eateth Me,' said Jesus Christ (and He used there the word which is specially applied to rumination), 'shall live by Me.' It does us no good to know that God is 'the Throne of Glory, high from the beginning, the place of our sanctuary,' unless we turn theology into devotion by meditation upon it. 'Suffer the word of exhortation ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... current was too weak to flash from the brain. And yet he appeared so sound throughout, that it was difficult to say that his mind was not as good as it ever had been. He had stored in it very little to feed on, and any mind would get enfeebled by a century's rumination on a hearsay idea of the rebellion ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner