nescience
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Origin of nescience
First recorded in 1605–15; from Late Latin nescientia “ignorance,” from nescient-, the stem of nesciēns, present participle of nescīre “to be ignorant, not to know,” equivalent to ne- “not” + scientia “knowledge”; see science
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If we can only surround ourselves with a bare space of nescience we may rest in peace.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
And what are all these gloomy and rebellious infidelities, these touching, and too sincere confessions of universal nescience, but a protest against this ancient law of Death?
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond
The plane of consciousness in which he had so long moved, with a memory running back five years and there ending in a blank wall of nescience, had made him cunning and shifty—necessarily so.
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell
Theology and metaphysics Comte repeatedly characterises as the two successive stages of nescience, unavoidable as preludes to science.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Edward Caldwell Moore
But total negation is not the result,—only nescience.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
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