nescience

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If modern science, discovering the moon's inferiority to the sun, call the former feminine, ancient nescience, supposing the sun to be inferior to the moon, called the latter masculine.

From Moon Lore by Harley, Timothy

It is a nescience whereby human aspirations are cribbed within ruled lines and made to balance on the opposite side.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

Simple nescience is not proud; consummated science is positively humble.

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

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 Ruskin, John

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 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge