nescience

Example Sentences

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Whether this be so or not, it is difficult to see how any idea of kinship could arise from such a condition of nescience.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

But all other sciences and arts, except this, have for their object the doing away with their opposite nescience and artlessness.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

It is not difficult to detect the fallacies in this argument of Spencer for religious nescience.

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

The question was a marvel of innocent nescience.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank

If we can only surround ourselves with a bare space of nescience we may rest in peace.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord