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Collectedness

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col·lect·ed  (k-lktd)
adj.
1. Self-possessed; composed. See Synonyms at cool.
2. Brought or placed together from various sources: the collected poems of W.H. Auden.
col·lected·ly adv.
col·lected·ness n.
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Ere quitting, for the nonce, the Sperm Whale's head, I would have you, as a sensible physiologist, simply --particularly remark its front aspect, in all its compacted collectedness.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
It begets in those [95] who fall in with him at the right moment of their spiritual development, a habit of reading between the lines, a faith in the effect of concentration and collectedness of mind on the right appreciation of poetry, the expectation that what is really worth having in the poetic order will involve, on their part, a certain discipline of the temper not less than of the intellect.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
They must have been, and were, in the notes, as well as in the words of his wild fantasias (for he not unfrequently accompanied himself with rhymed verbal improvisations), the result of that intense mental collectedness and concentration to which I have previously alluded as observable only in particular moments of the highest artificial excitement.
The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
 
 
 
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