Meaning of construance | Babel Free

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Synonym of construal.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“That is the language of the organic act, and if the Journal insists on a strict construance of the paragraph it will mean⟳ that the territorial legislature has power over supreme courts as well as the inferior courts referred to, and if the legislature has power to create⟳ county courts it has the power and it is its duty to create⟳ a supreme court.”

“The construance has been, it is complained by the president’s critics, that the innocent have⟳ been made to suffer⟳ while the guilty ones—the actual murderers—have⟳ escaped with a penalty that is a travesty.”

“The counselor’s agreement with the client’s construances of events communicates a positive attitude toward the client.”

“The purpose of science is to generate⟳ intersubjectively valid and pragmatically useful construances of reality … over the generations, constraints on the method of inquiry have⟳ evolved, mainly to counteract the basic human tendencies to interpret⟳ events within one’s preconceptions and to act such as to create⟳ what one expects.”

“The Mǎ reading of 12:1, like⟳ the grammatically normal (if interpretatively problematic) “and” reading of 9:1, is the likely solution, whereas the later suggestions are ingenuities based on technically possible but contextually awkward construances of one word.”

“Picking at the fine construances of words—half of which come⟳ to us through translations of dubious accuracy—would be no ally to our need⟳ for alacrity.”

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