nescience

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If we can only surround ourselves with a bare space of nescience we may rest in peace.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

Nor is he, like Shakespeare's biographer, reduced to choose between the starvation of nescience and the windy diet of conjecture.

From Life of John Milton by Garnett, Richard

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

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

Our exuberant nescience in matters Sternian extends up to the very publication of Tristram, as far as the determining causes of its production are concerned.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence

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