erudition
[er-yoo-dish-uh n, er-oo-]
- knowledge acquired by study, research, etc.; learning; scholarship.
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Origin of erudition
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Contemporary Examples
As you can see, there is plenty of erudition to go with the laughs.
But he shares with Foster Wallace a gift for exactitude, erudition, and moral concern.
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November 14, 2014
Iyer employs a terrific combination of erudition and absurdity that calls to mind the great postmodernists.
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October 1, 2014
Anderson carries his erudition lightly, but there's enough scholarship there to make an academic proud.
I respect Rabbi Yosef's erudition and his brave and sometimes iconoclastic halakhic (Jewish legal) writings.
Historical Examples
Did our author owe this insight to erudition or to poetic intuition?
The student who has not succeeded in stifling it is lost for ever to erudition.
BalthasarAnatole France
In Europe, erudition, research, and collections of rules have not been wanting.
But the eighteenth century was not the century of erudition.
Diderot and the EncyclopdistsJohn Morley
His erudition sat lightly on him, for it was simply a means to the end of his art.
John LylyJohn Dover Wilson
Word Origin and History for erudition
n.
c.1400, "instruction, education," from Latin eruditionem (nominative eruditio) "an instructing," noun of action from past participle stem of erudire (see erudite). Meaning "learning, scholarship" is from 1520s.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper