nescience

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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

Science hangs in a void of nescience, a planet turning in the dark.

From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

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

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)

It is a nescience whereby human aspirations are cribbed within ruled lines and made to balance on the opposite side.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John