pensée
See also: pensee
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɑ̃.se/
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Noun
pensée f (plural pensées)
- a thought (first attested 1176 in Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès, ed. A. Micha, 5246)
- reflection, meditation, faculty of thinking (late 12th century)
- late 12th century, Orson de Beauvais:
- Bone pansée (“wise reflection”).
- 1216, Guillaume Le Clerc, Fergus, ed. W. Frescoln, 3093:
- Rentrer en sa pensée.
- 1278, Sarrazin, Roman du Hem, ed. A. Henry, 4502:
- Entrer en une pensée.
- late 12th century, Orson de Beauvais:
- (in the expression “être en pensée”) worry, concern (late 12th century)
- late 12th century, Eneas, ms. A (second edition):
- Estre en pensé por.
- first half of the 13th century, La fille du Comte de Ponthieu, ed. C. Brunel, 288-289 and 379:
- Estre en molt grief pensée; estre en mout grant pensée de (aucun).
- 18 September 1789, letter of Archduchess Elisabeth to the later emperor Joseph II, published in Archiv für österreichische Geschichte, vol. 44 (1871), p. 204:
- Je ne puis dormir, toujours je suis en pensée avec la moitié de moi-même et les dangers auxquels vous êtes exposé se représentent si vivement à mon imagination qu'ils m'ôtent tout sommeil.
- late 12th century, Eneas, ms. A (second edition):
- the mind as the seat of thinking (c. 1200)
- (obsolete) amorous attachment (c. 1200)
- manner of thinking (c. 1215)
- an idea coming up in one's mind (c. 1220 in Anseïs de Carthage, 332)
- the guiding idea of a decision made or one's will (c. 1274 in Adenet Le Roi, Berte, 1644)
- moral disposition (first quarter of 13th century)
- an operation of the mind (since 1636)
- idea expressed by an author in a literary or artistic work (since 1621)
- 1621, Étienne Binet, Essai des merveilles de Nature, chap. X, p. 201:
- Jetter ses premières pensées sur la toile.
- 1669, Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion
- 1801, Académie française and Samuel Heinrich Catel, Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise, vol. 4, de Lagarde, Paris, p. 324:
- Travestir une pensée (“disguise an idea, represent it under a different form”).
- 1621, Étienne Binet, Essai des merveilles de Nature, chap. X, p. 201:
- thinking, worldview of an author
- Travestir la pensée d'un auteur.
- a pansy (plant) (c. 1460)
Further reading
- “pensée” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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