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View synonyms for arrière-pensée
arrière-pensée
[ a-ryer-pahn-sey ]
noun
, French.
, plural ar·rière-pen·sées [a, -, r, ye, r, -pah, n, -, sey].
- 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
C19: literally: behind thought
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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.
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Let me first assure my audience that I have no arrière pensée in the title chosen for this lecture.
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There is no bird that seems to me so thoroughly happy as he, so void of all arrière pensée about getting a livelihood.
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She used to have such a dreamy look; but now there is no arrière pensée, she goes into everything with all her heart.'
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Emerson uses the word here in the same sense as the French arrière-pensée, a mental reservation.
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