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What does intellect mean?

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Noun
  1. the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)
  2. the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
  3. a person who has that faculty to a great degree
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We emphasize the seeming slowness of wisdom as acquired by intellect in its finite journeying through finite existences.
First, it is a denial of the power of the human intellect to reason out understanding.
She was a very bright pupil of very keen intellect which stood her in good stead all through her long life.
Not all great books are able to speak to us before we have done the work to ready our intellect and literary palates for them, but many are.
Of course, it takes a keen military intellect to understand the strategic importance of blowing up empty buildings.
The artist's restless muse and critical intellect enable a confrontation with, and the effort to amend, the society's limiting traditions.

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