nescience

Example Sentences

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What we call the historic sense is not consistent with a state of nescience.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

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)

The Americansʼ good and honest intentions were only equalled by their nescience of the Malay character.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

At the very same time the two schools were born into the modern world, and the re-proclamation of Theosophy, the supreme knowledge, was the answer from the invisible worlds to the nescience of Science.

From London Lectures of 1907 by Besant, Annie Wood

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