nescience
Example Sentences
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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
The question was a marvel of innocent nescience.
From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank
The Americansʼ good and honest intentions were only equalled by their nescience of the Malay character.
From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John
Still less was it a ground for rejoicing, or for supposing that the nescience to which it ought to have given rise could be legitimately exchanged for a metaphysical dogmatism.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand
It is therefore a science founded on nescience, and an art founded on artlessness.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John
