sciolism
Example Sentences
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Few things are as distressing as the sciolism of a second-rate English editor of a classic.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
Meanwhile, the genius of the Florentine people was saving Italian literature from the extreme consequences to which caricatures of this kind, inspired by humanistic pedantry and sciolism, exposed it.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
And such readers will become in all probability more numerous, in proportion as a still greater diffusion of literature shall produce an increase of sciolists, and sciolism bring with it petulance and presumption.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Scīolis′tic, pertaining to, or partaking of, sciolism: pertaining to, or resembling, a sciolist; Scī′olous.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
This is scholarship; the secondary information that has been popular is sciolism.
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
