perusal
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:
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Pe·rus·al
n.
[From Peruse.]
1. The act of carefully viewing or examining. [R.] Tatler.
2. The act of reading, especially of reading through or with care. Woodward.
Roget's Thesaurus:
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perusal
noun
- The act of examining carefully: check, checkup, examination, inspection, scrutiny, study, view. Informal going-over. See investigate.
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perusal
IN BRIEF: The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully.
Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
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