erudition
Example Sentences
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His astonishing erudition encouraged him to tread where few playwrights before him had dared to go.
From Los Angeles Times
Being so multivarious in its effects and all but ubiquitous in human history, wind is a convenient vehicle for a writer known for charming prolixity and relaxed erudition.
In the early 20th century, a clergyman named Montague Summers wrote histories of European vampires that displayed his erudition and eccentricity—not least because he was sure that vampires really did exist.
Each one is a small masterpiece of concision that combines erudition, insight and dry humor.
David Souter stripped aside the well-maintained fiction that justices are appointed to the Court for their erudition, their intellect, their learnedness, and their reason.
From Salon
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