nescience

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This also is an argument for nescience in theology, in the presumed interests of revelation.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

He waves both hands in a fury of nescience and cries, "Ask me another!"

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

At the very same time the two schools were born into the modern world, and the re-proclamation of Theosophy, the supreme knowledge, was the answer from the invisible worlds to the nescience of Science.

From London Lectures of 1907 by Besant, Annie Wood

But total negation is not the result,—only nescience.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

Hence, no ignorance would have been in them, but only nescience in regard to certain matters.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint