nescience

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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

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

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John

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

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

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

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

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