vergegenwärtigen

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German

Etymology

ver- +‎ Gegenwart +‎ -igen

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  • Hyphenation: ver‧ge‧gen‧wär‧ti‧gen

Verb

vergegenwärtigen (weak, third-person singular present vergegenwärtigt, past tense vergegenwärtigte, past participle vergegenwärtigt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (reflexive) to bear in mind, imagine
    • 1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches [Human, All Too Human]‎, section 162:
      Alle diese Thätigkeiten erklären sich, wenn man sich Menschen vergegenwärtigt, deren Denken in Einer Richtung thätig ist, die Alles als Stoff benützen, die immer ihrem innern Leben und dem Anderer mit Eifer zusehen, die überall Vorbilder, Anreizungen erblicken, die in der Combination ihrer Mittel nicht müde werden.
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