erudition

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.

“So, we thought Justice Chandrachud would use his erudition and brilliant mind to do a lot of good for the citizens. But he has been disappointing,” she said.

Solomon, not well-known today, was a Harvard-educated bon vivant known for his erudition in new art’s European history.

The language in these letters is just remarkable, it's two men in love with their own sense of erudition.

While philosophers may opine about the recent solar eclipse with far more erudition than I, let me simply say that it’s doubtful we took the hint.