sciolism
Example Sentences
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Of all these cobwebs spun by the spiders of sciolism, the Euhemeristic or Spencerian view—that Gladstone is an historical personage—has attracted most attention.
From In the Wrong Paradise by Lang, Andrew
Here there is some genuine ground for the generally baseless and delusive opinion of self-complacent sciolism that he who runs may read Shakespeare.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Gosse, Edmund
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)
Few things are as distressing as the sciolism of a second-rate English editor of a classic.
From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John
This is scholarship; the secondary information that has been popular is sciolism.
From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.
