learnedness

Example Sentences

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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

Jack Anderson, a writer on dance for The New York Times for about five decades who combined a historian’s learnedness with an enthusiast’s ardor for what was new and surprising, died on Friday in Manhattan.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2023

His mother was a member of the Beyrums, a noble Turkish family which had risen to prominence in Tunis, was famous throughout the Arab world for its learnedness in Moslem law.

From Time Magazine Archive

However, he knew scholars to be an unmannered species; and the doctor's learnedness would be a subject to dilate on.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

So we find him writing counterpoint for the sake of the learnedness and presumable respectability, rather than as a piece of expression.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul