nescience
Example Sentences
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Whether this be so or not, it is difficult to see how any idea of kinship could arise from such a condition of nescience.
From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas
Accordingly the gift of counsel is in the blessed, in so far as God preserves in them the knowledge that they have, and enlightens them in their nescience of what has to be done.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Aquinas Thomas
But all other sciences and arts, except this, have for their object the doing away with their opposite nescience and artlessness.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin
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
If we can only surround ourselves with a bare space of nescience we may rest in peace.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
