nescience

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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 Ruskin, John

Sometimes James was thrown into a blind rage by the complacency with which from the depths of his nescience his father dogmatised.

From The Hero by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

And what are all these gloomy and rebellious infidelities, these touching, and too sincere confessions of universal nescience, but a protest against this ancient law of Death?

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

Science hangs in a void of nescience, a planet turning in the dark.

From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

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 LeSueur, William Dawson