unenlightenment

Example Sentences

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The frank simplicity of his greeting, his careless unenlightenment of his own wretched spiritual state, thrilled her like an electric shock with a strange new pity for him.

From The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West by Wilson, Harry Leon

These first pages bear witness both to the energy of his genius and also to its unenlightenment; he seems more ignorant and more cocksure than so great a man should be.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

If no one present had ever heard the name before, the consequential manner of its announcement would have brought a sense of deplorable unenlightenment.

From The Key to Yesterday by Buck, Charles Neville

He saw around him the folly and unenlightenment of the perpetual feud.

From The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship by Picton, Harold W. (Harold Williams)

The Chief Confidential Clerk was not conscious that he was really ignorant of the subject in hand—no true diplomat ever is—the young Secretary was painfully aware of his own unenlightenment.

From Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by Wells, David Dwight