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erudition

[er-yoo-dish-uhn, er-oo-] / ˌɛr jʊˈdɪʃ ən, ˌɛr ʊ- /


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The Culture Gabfest, “The Erudition is Sick” Edition Listen to 's show about Beavis and Butt-head, literary theory, and indie rock’s decent into banality.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2011

Erudition and silliness are not mutually exclusive, and no one understood that better than Willy Wonka.

From Newsweek

Pass the Erudition Sir: The community is not as primordial as the individual.

From Time Magazine Archive

Erudition, scholarship, historic love, literary elegance, were nothing to him.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Erudition, criticism, common sense, an almost exact exposition of dogmas and of institutions, philosophic views of the relationships between events and on the general run of these, nothing is lacking but the people!

From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John




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