nescience

Example Sentences

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The Americansʼ good and honest intentions were only equalled by their nescience of the Malay character.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

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

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

What we call the historic sense is not consistent with a state of nescience.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

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