unenlightenment

The Chief Confidential Clerk was not conscious that he was really ignorant of the subject in hand—no true diplomat ever is—the young Secretary was painfully aware of his own unenlightenment.

If no one present had ever heard the name before, the consequential manner of its announcement would have brought a sense of deplorable unenlightenment.

He saw around him the folly and unenlightenment of the perpetual feud.

In it the mores of conservatism are developed,—unchangeable manners, fixed usages and ideas, unenlightenment, refusal of new ideas, subserviency of the lower classes, and sycophancy.

These first pages bear witness both to the energy of his genius and also to its unenlightenment; he seems more ignorant and more cocksure than so great a man should be.