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noun

Notion n.

Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notae. "What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles." "Few agree in their notions about these words." "That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc." "Notion, again, signifies either the act of apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking note of, the various notes, marks, or characters of an object which its qualities afford, or the result of that act."

A sentiment; an opinion. "The extravagant notion they entertain of themselves." "A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity."

Sense; mind. (Obs.)

An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions. (Colloq.)

Inclination; intention; disposition; as, I have a notion to do it. (Colloq.)

Miscellaneous small objects; sundries; usually referring to articles displayed together for sale.

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"Notion" Quotes from Famous Books

... I accordingly throw it up. I want a subject of the most wild and passionate love, to contrast with the one I mean to have ready in a short time. I have many half-conceptions, floating fancies: give me your notion of a thorough self-devotement, self-forgetting; should it be a woman who loves thus, or a man? What circumstances will best draw out, set forth ...

— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

... of the line, but that was all. He shot along on the inside, for the horse seemed to have a notion that it was racing the ...

— Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point - Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life • H. Irving Hancock

... was nearly blind, and I think she could scarce make out my lineaments. She was of an entirely different nature to Giacomo the butler—she thoroughly believed her master to be dead, as indeed she had every reason to do, but strange to say, Giacomo did not. The old man had a fanatical notion that his "young lord" could not have died so suddenly, and he grew so obstinate on the point that my wife declared he must be going crazy. Assunta, on the other hand, would talk volubly of my death and ...

— Vendetta - A Story of One Forgotten • Marie Corelli

... workingman that the relations of capital and labor are those of hostile interests; that profits and wages are in an inverse ratio; that the symbol of the factory is a see-saw, on which capital goes up as labor goes down. As things are, there is unfortunately too much ground for this notion, ...

— Black and White - Land, Labor, and Politics in the South • Timothy Thomas Fortune

... and in New England, in New York, in New Orleans, and all down the Mississippi. And men are crying back to them: 'Stand to your rifles and we will come and help you!' The idea of disarming ten thousand Americans!" Jack laughed with scornful amusement at the notion. "What a game it will be! Mother, you can't tell how a man gets to love his rifle. He that takes our purse takes trash; but our rifles! By George Washington, that's a ...

— Remember the Alamo • Amelia E. Barr

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