nescience

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Such an avowal of nescience is an implicit assertion of an immeasurable insight.

From To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)

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

Our exuberant nescience in matters Sternian extends up to the very publication of Tristram, as far as the determining causes of its production are concerned.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence

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

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

The question was a marvel of innocent nescience.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank