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imaginings
noun
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▪ And though the researchers had suspected all along that these hot springs existed, the real thing had far surpassed their imaginings.
▪ But North's memoranda were also aspirations, plans, dreams and imaginings, as much as schedules of facts.
▪ Even outside all these imaginings, rumor and derision held us in an unwelcome embrace.
▪ In my nighttime imaginings, sometimes help comes for me just in time.
▪ In my wildest imaginings, I could not have foreseen what a wonderful life lay before me.
▪ It is these negative imaginings which make the fear an even greater reality.
▪ My files are stuffed with my imaginings, published and unpublished.
▪ Personal opinion or preferences and speculative imaginings have no place in science.
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imaginings

n. (plural of imagining English)

Usage examples of "imaginings".

But to hear the rumours are truth and not peasant imaginings - of this he is most happy and excited to learn!

It is all too easy, in a state of extreme tiredness, to allow all kinds of imaginings to intrude on the mind.

He tormented us, bringing dreams, imaginings, madness, even physical harm.

Although she was nothing like my imaginings, I knew instantly that she was a changeling.

She bore little resemblance to the trolls and witches of my night-time fears and imaginings, but at the same time there was something about her which was unlike anything or anyone I'd ever seen.

Yet also at that time, long after I should have been concentrating on guild exams, or smoking on street corners and flirting with the girls, I was still often a knight from the Age of Kings, riding out in my imaginings on a fine mount of silver-white into unspoilt lands which went on forever.

And faces of different hue and aspect, too, which I'd barely glimpsed in my storybook imaginings up in Bracebridge, but here wandered real in their strange clothes, and spoke in their strange voices.

She was sure of it She had had a vague sense of it in her nighttime imaginings, but now that she heard it articulated, she was positive that was it.

She had cooked up the conversations of the previous night from her fevered imaginings, but none of it was based in reality.

In his imaginings, he had always figured that it would be in some great, dramatic context, possibly with the fate of entire worlds hinging on the outcome of the meeting.

He looked at the empty chair which, in his imaginings, had been occupied by Riella a short time earlier, ".

For a moment Verminaard's thoughts were violent, and the voice of his imaginings blurred with the voice on the stairs.

There was no magic in the creature, Daeghrefn said, no power except the fear prompted by the wild imaginings of the mountain peoples.

Before him, in his imaginings, a great chaos of crushed and defenseless fortresses would be the work of his own hand and heart and will.

To have my departed mother's shade show up in my imaginings and put forward some useful advice.