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 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

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

But total negation is not the result,—only nescience.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman

The plane of consciousness in which he had so long moved, with a memory running back five years and there ending in a blank wall of nescience, had made him cunning and shifty—necessarily so.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson

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

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John