Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

Usage examples of feeling.

Hutchinson has little leisure for much praise of the natural beauty of sky and landscape, but now and then in her work there appears an abiding sense of the pleasantness of the rural world--in her day an implicit feeling rather than an explicit.

The abomination of it all, the vengeance of destiny which exacted this sacrilege, filled her with such a feeling of revolt that at the moment when vertigo was about to seize her and the flooring began to flee from beneath her feet, she was lashed by it and kept erect.

I had a feeling that I had passed through this abusive cult for a reason.

Carefully, he swung onto the downdeck ladder and climbed down three levels, feeling the increased acceleration in his thighs.

She flexed the controls, watching the moire patterns of stress and acceleration shift, trying to correlate them with what she was feeling.

After breakfast I sent for mine host and ordered an excellent supper for five persons, feeling certain that Don Sancio, whom I expected in the evening, would not refuse to honour me by accepting my invitation, and with that idea I made up my mind to go without my dinner.

She ached to be outside in the fresh air, to be dressed in her oldest jeans, turning over spades full of soft loamy earth, feeling the excitement and pleasure of siting the bulbs, of allowing her imagination to paint for her the colourful picture they would make in the spring, in their uniform beds set among lawn pathways and bordered by a long deep border of old-fashioned perennial plants.

I will hope that in feeling my guilt--in acknowledging the superexcellence of virtue, I fulfil, in part, his design.

I woke with thoughts of her, and feeling sure that we should become acquainted I felt curious to know what success I should have with her.

Sun Li-jen and the Generalissimo had to acquiesce, with no accretion of good feeling.

If, after other strategies have failed, acquiescence is deemed to be the optimum response to protect life and reduce physical injury in a given situation, it is important that the victim be comfortable with such a choice and be aware that postassault guilt feelings will probably arise.

His speech was very moderate, although it might have appeared that he was guided by some acrimonious feeling in selecting Lord Glenelg for attack.

The heedless fellow fulfilled his commission so well that the actress, feeling insulted, told him that she dared me to call on her.

The nature of nicotine addiction is that it leaves you feeling permanently hungry and therefore more liable to become overweight.

This feeling alone would make your most kind and wise admonitions, on the subject of the economy of intellectual force, valuable to me.