sciolism
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This is a point on which the ancients, I am aware, in their light-hearted sciolism laid great stress.
From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
This is scholarship; the secondary information that has been popular is sciolism.
From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.
He constantly ridiculed the austerities, pedantry, priggishness and sciolism of the old-time Churchmen, and when a new question came up, he asked, "What good is there in it?"
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Hubbard, Elbert
And the husks of culture are pedantry and sciolism.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert
"Positive philosophy," with complacent sciolism, may still coldly asseverate that the world is a dead congeries of "laws," into whose realm man is cast to take pot-luck in the universe; but we shall know better.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
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