Слово "conception". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

And though there was no reason in his brain for a clear conception of so abstract a thing as justice, nevertheless, in his own way, he felt the justice of the man-animals, and he knew them for what they were—makers of law and executors of law.

She had heard of M. Hercule Poirot, the well-known investigator, but this was the first time she had seen him in the flesh. The comic, almost ridiculous, aspect that he presented disturbed her conception of him.

Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said thought or conception as something fated, inevitable, and foreordained—something bound to happen.

He went the way of self-denial by means of meditation, through imagining the mind to be void of all conceptions.

Now there was no one, for Aunt Pitty had no conception of life beyond her small round of gossip.

He stopped, then said bitterly, "In them is lacking all conception of dignity."

“It is well I drew the curtain,” thought I; and I wished fervently he might not discover my hiding-place: nor would John Reed have found it out himself; he was not quick either of vision or conception; but Eliza just put her head in at the door, and said at once—

The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.

The night however, was far gone into the morning-the morning, black as it was, was nearly ripe for the conception of the day-the inmates of my house were locked in the most rigorous hours of slumber; and I determined, flushed as I was with hope and triumph, to venture in my new shape as far as to my bedroom.