nescience
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The Americansʼ good and honest intentions were only equalled by their nescience of the Malay character.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
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 L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby
Hence, no ignorance would have been in them, but only nescience in regard to certain matters.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Theology and metaphysics Comte repeatedly characterises as the two successive stages of nescience, unavoidable as preludes to science.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
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 Annie Wood Besant
