erudition
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As in the Habsburg monarchy at large, German was the fashionable common language of erudition, commerce and art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Czech-born British playwright whose works were a rare combination of erudition and commercial success.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
David Souter stripped aside the well-maintained fiction that justices are appointed to the Court for their erudition, their intellect, their learnedness, and their reason.
From Salon ● May 16, 2025
First published in 2009, “Bluets” was reissued in 2017 after the success of Nelson’s similarly hybrid 2015 work, “The Argonauts,” which heralded a publishing fad for essay-memoirs that combined ambient erudition with diaristic introspection.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2024
And after a lifetime of scholarship he was so laden with erudition that his ideas came avalanching down faster than he could organize them.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing erudition
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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