nescience
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All attempt at concealment implies some practice of the opposite, or undivine science, founded on nescience.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John
He waves both hands in a fury of nescience and cries, "Ask me another!"
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May
Cousin made no reply to Hamilton’s criticism beyond alleging that Hamilton’s doctrine necessarily restricted human knowledge and certainty to psychology and logic, and destroyed metaphysics by introducing nescience and uncertainty into its highest sphere—theodicy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
At the very same time the two schools were born into the modern world, and the re-proclamation of Theosophy, the supreme knowledge, was the answer from the invisible worlds to the nescience of Science.
From London Lectures of 1907 by Besant, Annie Wood
The old acceptance of religious nescience is passing away; there is a new impatience to reach the foundation of things, a popular clamour for explanation of the riddles of life.
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)
