The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ponderation \Pon`der*a"tion\, n. [L. ponderatio: cf. F.
pond['e]ration.]
The act of weighing. [R.]
--Arbuthnot.
Wiktionary
n. 1 heaviness 2 mental weighing; deliberation; pondering 3 physical weighing or balancing
Usage examples of "ponderation".
Roland had no idea if he had understood or not, but wasting time in ponderation would not help matters.
Stephen could not but agree, and after a moment's cursing of his own tongue for its absolute, domineering, prating folly, its lack of ponderation and decent restraint, which would have led to provisoes, to certain exemptions for the common good, he took a turn on deck, where he was comforted first by an uncommonly numerous school of flying fishes that skimmed well above the surface, quite high in the air, there to be snapped up in the fading light by the frigate-birds, darting and flashing among them with breath-taking rapidity.