sapience
noun
great wisdom or sound judgment.
Example Sentences
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His father, assuming the look of extreme sapiency, which is always worn by the interrogator who does not desire or expect to increase his knowledge by his questions, asked: "What's this, Simon?"
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
"It is the sapiency of fools, To shrink from handling evil tools."
From The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete by George Meredith
Storri was by no means wise after the manner of a Franklin or a Humboldt or a Herschel; but he did possess the deep sapiency of the serpent or the fox.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
