Synonyms

1. sagaciousness
2. judiciousness

Sentence Examples

1. It would seem that the domestics had been previously instructed for, instead of penetrating the thicket, they followed the route of the column a measure which Heyward stated had been dictated by the sagacity of their guide, in order to diminish the marks of their trail, if, haply, the Canadian savages should be lurking so far in advance of their army.
2. With the sun for his only guide, or aided by such blind marks as are only known to the sagacity of a native, he held his way along the barrens of pine, through occasional little fertile vales, across brooks and rivulets, and over undulating hills, with the accuracy of instinct, and nearly with the directness of a bird.
3. He was strongly tempted to address the young chief, and demand his opinion of their progress but the calm and dignified demeanor of the native induced him to believe, that, like himself, the other was wholly dependent on the sagacity and intelligence of the seniors of the party.
4. And therefore, upon any unexpected signs of amendment, after they have pronounced their sentence, rather than be accused as false prophets, they know how to approve their sagacity to the world by a seasonable dose.
5. I one day took the freedom to tell his majesty that the contempt he discovered towards Europe, and the rest of the world, did not seem answerable to those excellent qualities of mind he was master of that reason did not extend itself with the bulk of the body on the contrary, we observed in our country that the tallest persons were usually least provided with it that among other animals, bees and ants had the reputation of more industry, art, and sagacity than many of the larger kinds and that, as inconsiderable as he took me to be, I hoped I might live to do his majesty some signal service.
6. Morcerf asked leave to retire he had to collect the documents he had long been preparing against this storm, which his sagacity had foreseen.
7. I say, too, that when a painter desires to become famous in his art he endeavours to copy the originals of the rarest painters that he knows and the same rule holds good for all the most important crafts and callings that serve to adorn a state thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively picture of prudence and patience as Virgil, too, shows us in the person of Æneas the virtue of a pious son and the sagacity of a brave and skilful captain not representing or describing them as they were, but as they ought to be, so as to leave the example of their virtues to posterity.
8. The strong glare of the fire fell full upon his sturdy, weather-beaten countenance and forest attire, lending an air of romantic wildness to the aspect of an individual, who, seen by the sober light of day, would have exhibited the peculiarities of a man remarkable for the strangeness of his dress, the iron-like inflexibility of his frame, and the singular compound of quick, vigilant sagacity, and of exquisite simplicity, that by turns usurped the possession of his muscular features.
9. I durst make no return to this malicious insinuation, which debased human understanding below the sagacity of a common hound, who has judgment enough to distinguish and follow the cry of the ablest dog in the pack, without being ever mistaken.
10. It was no more than the principals were prepared for they had calculated from the time of its being known at Randalls, how soon it would be over Highbury and were thinking of themselves, as the evening wonder in many a family circle, with great sagacity.