reflexion

See also: Reflexion, réflexion, and reflexión

English edit

From Late Latin reflexiō; the variant spelling reflection is due to influence from correction.

reflexion (countable and uncountable, plural reflexions)

Dated spelling of reflection.
- 1684, John Goodman, A Winter-Evening Conference between neighbours:
  Now, I say, why Time should be so burthensome to such as these, or what should betray them to such infrugal Expences of it, I can give no account without making severe Reflexions on their Discretion.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
  He gets off the train, determined not to leave town after all. But a little further reflexion shows him the folly of such a course.

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