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Consideration   /kənsˌɪdərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Consideration  n.  
1.
The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention. "Let us think with consideration." "Consideration, like an angel, came."
2.
Attentive respect; appreciative regard; used especially in diplomatic or stately correspondence. "The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration." "The consideration with which he was treated."
3.
Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice. "Consideration for the poor is a doctrine of the church."
4.
Claim to notice or regard; some degree of importance or consequence. "Lucan is the only author of consideration among the Latin poets who was not explained for... the Dauphin."
5.
The result of delibration, or of attention and examonation; matured opinion; a reflection; as, considerations on the choice of a profession.
6.
That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason. "He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations, to search an asylum." "Some considerations which are necessary to the forming of a correct judgment."
7.
(Law) The cause which moves a contracting party to enter into an agreement; the material cause of a contract; the price of a stripulation; compensation; equivalent. Note: Consideration is what is done, or promised to be done, in exchange for a promise, and "as a mere advantage to the promisor without detriment to the promisee would not avail, the proper test is detriment to the promisee."






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"Consideration" Quotes from Famous Books



... bought five hundred of his drawings from his son, Alessandro, but his works were ignored and dispersed. The classic and romantic fashions passed, but it was only in 1850 that the brothers de Goncourt, writing on art, revived consideration for the painter of a bygone generation. Many of his works are in private collections, especially in England, but few are in public galleries. The National Gallery is fortunate ...
— The Venetian School of Painting • Evelyn March Phillipps

... the feast that followed, discoursed to his guests of his claim to Otranto through the will of Alfonso bequeathing his estates to Don Ricardo, Manfred's grandfather, in consideration of faithful services; and he subtly suggested his plan of uniting the houses by divorcing Hippolita and marrying Isabella. But the knight and his companions would not reveal their countenances, and, although they occasionally made gestures of ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VIII • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

... Dreda's personal beauty and charm which had captivated her imagination, and that all the starved instincts of her beauty-loving nature were finding vicarious satisfaction in another's life. Susan had lived her life in a prosaic household, where beauty was the last consideration to be taken into account. If an article had to be bought, Mrs Webster gave consideration to strength and durability, and to strength and durability alone. In buying curtains, for instance, she sought for a nondescript colour which would defy the sun's rays, ...
— Etheldreda the Ready - A School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... l. 1. de melan., takes just exceptions, at this aphorism of Hippocrates, 'tis not always true, or so generally to be understood, "fear and sorrow are no common symptoms to all melancholy; upon more serious consideration, I find some" (saith he) "that are not so at all. Some indeed are sad, and not fearful; some fearful and not sad; some neither fearful nor sad; some both." Four kinds he excepts, fanatical persons, such as were Cassandra, Nanto, Nicostrata, Mopsus, Proteus, the sibyls, whom ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

... often to blame, because we cannot bring ourselves to speak freely of these things, to be importunate, to ask for help; it seems to us at once impertinent and undignified; but it is this sort of dreary consideration, which is nothing but distorted vanity, and this still drearier dignity, which withholds from us so much that ...
— Joyous Gard • Arthur Christopher Benson


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