sciolism

Example Sentences

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Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin

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

And the husks of culture are pedantry and sciolism.

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

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)