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arrière-pensée
[ a-ryer-pahn-sey ]
noun
- a mental reservation; hidden motive.
arrière-pensée
/ arjɛrpɑ̃se /
noun
- an unrevealed thought or intention
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Word History and Origins
Origin of arrière-pensée1
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Example Sentences
Without any shadow of an arrière pensée, that was her genuine feeling as a mother and a member of society.
Let me first assure my audience that I have no arrière pensée in the title chosen for this lecture.
There is no bird that seems to me so thoroughly happy as he, so void of all arrière pensée about getting a livelihood.
She used to have such a dreamy look; but now there is no arrière pensée, she goes into everything with all her heart.'
Emerson uses the word here in the same sense as the French arrière-pensée, a mental reservation.
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