sciolism
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And the husks of culture are pedantry and sciolism.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
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 Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
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
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
"Positive philosophy," with complacent sciolism, may still coldly asseverate that the world is a dead congeries of "laws," into whose realm man is cast to take pot-luck in the universe; but we shall know better.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
