sciolism
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This is a point on which the ancients, I am aware, in their light-hearted sciolism laid great stress.
From A Modern Symposium by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
This is scholarship; the secondary information that has been popular is sciolism.
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.
From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett
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 Elbert Hubbard
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 Andrew Lang
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