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 LeSueur, William Dawson

Such an avowal of nescience is an implicit assertion of an immeasurable insight.

From To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)

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

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience; otherwise the science itself is impossible.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John