nescience

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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

The so-called science that assumes or undertakes to do that, is materialism and nescience.

From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by Buck, J. D. (Jirah Dewey)

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 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

The old acceptance of religious nescience is passing away; there is a new impatience to reach the foundation of things, a popular clamour for explanation of the riddles of life.

From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)