nescience

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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

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

He waves both hands in a fury of nescience and cries, "Ask me another!"

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

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

Hence, no ignorance would have been in them, but only nescience in regard to certain matters.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint