Used in a Sentence

lection

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for lection.

Editorial note

All progress is priced in immediately, this is the lection everyone learns - or should learn - after a few years at least.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(ecclesiastical) A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of lection gathered in one view.

noun

(ecclesiastical) A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lection.

noun

(ecclesiastical) A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.

Example sentences

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All progress is priced in immediately, this is the lection everyone learns - or should learn - after a few years at least.

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But one lection for me was that I once again liked it very much to write something with Ruby and Sinatra.

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So it's inappropriate here to give lection on linguistic relativism.

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>The master is responsible for assigning tablets to tablet servers, detecting the addition and expiration of tablet servers, balancing tablet-server load, and garbage col- lection of files in GFS.

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Danielewski, House of Leaves: Three emdashes on page 1 > Much like its subject, The Navidson Record itself is also uneasily contained -- whether by category or lection.

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Then there's a historically unprecedented incident stemming from Trump's dispute of the lection results, organized by him on social media, and initiated by his speech on Wednesday morning.

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How that squares with the presentation as a privacy feature is a lection in corpospeak I guess) So especially in that situation, you should turn off FLoC.

Quote examples

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While it is true that "lesson" is commonly used like that nowadays (and it's helpful that dictionaries explain this), it derives from latin "lection" which means ~reading~, related to "lecture".

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A report for the Council on Library and Information Resources states that one of the first questions to ask in any digiti- zation project is “Does the intellectual quality of the source material warrant the level of access made possible by digitizing?” One can posit this as a chicken/egg problem—how do we know if the col- lection is good enough to digitize if we haven’t already described it to the item level?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use lection in a sentence?

All progress is priced in immediately, this is the lection everyone learns - or should learn - after a few years at least.

What does lection mean?

(ecclesiastical) A reading of a religious text; a lesson to be read in church etc.

What part of speech is lection?

lection is commonly used as noun.