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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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)
If we can only surround ourselves with a bare space of nescience we may rest in peace.
From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord
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
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 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 Lowell, Orson
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