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/vjˈuɪŋ/ Listen

verb

View v. t. (past & past part. viewed; pres. part. viewing)

To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore. "O, let me view his visage, being dead." "Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of their state he more might learn."

To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects. "The happiest youth, viewing his progress through."

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Etymology of 'Viewing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Viewing" Quotes from Famous Books

... others, we perceive the same reigning principle—a principle which some will regard as an uncompromising adherence to the faith of the Church; but which others can regard only in the light of a prejudice, and a rooted habit of viewing all things ...

— Primitive Christian Worship • James Endell Tyler

... modes; and, apparently, by the most contemptible instruments. Everything seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity and ferocity, and of all sorts of crimes jumbled together with all sorts of follies. In viewing this monstrous tragi-comic scene, the most opposite passions necessarily succeed, and sometimes mix with each other in the mind; alternate contempt and indignation; alternate laughter and ...

— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke

... should have agreed, for at heart they cherished the same opinions, with different ways of viewing them. ...

— File No. 113 • Emile Gaboriau

... seemed magnified to welcome Pierre Philibert, who was up betimes this morning and out in the pure air viewing ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... candle of the Lord," and it is not religion but apostasy to deny the reality of any of God's revelations of truth to man, merely because they have not descended through a single channel. On the contrary, we ought to hail with gratitude, instead of viewing with suspicion, the enunciation by heathen writers of truths which we might at first sight have been disposed to regard as the special heritage of Christianity. In Pythagoras, and Socrates, and Plato,—in Seneca, Epictetus, ...

— Seekers after God • Frederic William Farrar

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