nescience
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Judging, however, by the Algonquin's replies to Champlain's catechising, his mental attitude was one of admirable neutrality, securely founded on nescience, regarding any or all of the doctrines in debate between Rome and Geneva.
From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur
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 John Ruskin
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 J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck
He waves both hands in a fury of nescience and cries, "Ask me another!"
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair
The question was a marvel of innocent nescience.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
