nescience

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Science hangs in a void of nescience, a planet turning in the dark.

From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

All attempt at concealment implies some practice of the opposite, or undivine science, founded on nescience.

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

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

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

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

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