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Pondering

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pon·der  (pndr)
v. pon·dered, pon·der·ing, pon·ders
v.tr.
To weigh in the mind with thoroughness and care.
v.intr.
To reflect or consider with thoroughness and care.
[Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer, from Latin ponderre, from pondus, ponder-, weight; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]
ponder·er n.
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Adj.1.pondering - deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";
contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminative, brooding, broody
thoughtful - exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper"


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There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause: --through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom), then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Pondering over a new form of theatrical attraction for the coming winter season, Francis had determined to revive the languid public taste for the ballet by means of an entertainment of his own invention, combining dramatic interest with dancing.
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Thus pondering, and cradled by forty thoughts, it overtaketh me all at once--sleep, the unsummoned, the lord of the virtues.
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