nescience

Example Sentences

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But total negation is not the result,—only nescience.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

The so-called science that assumes or undertakes to do that, is materialism and nescience.

From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by Buck, J. D. (Jirah Dewey)

It is therefore a science founded on nescience, and an art founded on artlessness.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience; otherwise the science itself is impossible.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John

Sometimes James was thrown into a blind rage by the complacency with which from the depths of his nescience his father dogmatised.

From The Hero by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)