sciolism

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He constantly ridiculed the austerities, pedantry, priggishness and sciolism of the old-time Churchmen, and when a new question came up, he asked, "What good is there in it?"

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Hubbard, Elbert

And the husks of culture are pedantry and sciolism.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert

This is scholarship; the secondary information that has been popular is sciolism.

From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.

I am sick of sciolism, especially that phase where it crops out in shallow criticism, and every day something recalls the reprimand of Apelles to the shoemaker.

From St. Elmo by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

This is a point on which the ancients, I am aware, in their light-hearted sciolism laid great stress.

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