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Definition of "reflexion" [re•flex•ion]

  • Chiefly British Variant of reflection. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "reflexion" in a sentence
  • "Mixed with her dread and with her reflexion was the idea that, if he wanted her so much as he seemed to show, it might be after all simply to do for him the "anything" she had promised, the "everything" she had thought it so fine to bring out to Mr. Mudge."
  • "She looked as if she had spent her life on platforms, in audiences, in conventions, in phalansteries, in _séances_; in her faded face there was a kind of reflexion of ugly lecture-lamps; with its habit of an upward angle, it seemed turned toward a public speaker, with an effort of respiration in the thick air in which social reforms are usually discussed."
  • "This could have been the perfect photo for a "reflexion" theme day; -), but no, I photographed it just for the sake of it."