nescience

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

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

The question was a marvel of innocent nescience.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank

But all this is merely the old effort to make capital out of nescience, and the stars are before our eyes to prove the contrary.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard

Living here means nescience simply; 'tis next life that helps to learn.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

If modern science, discovering the moon's inferiority to the sun, call the former feminine, ancient nescience, supposing the sun to be inferior to the moon, called the latter masculine.

From Moon Lore by Harley, Timothy