Example Sentences

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It is a supremely deductive brain, but it resembles an idiot savante.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Oh, because of things that I should find it hard to explain to you; I am not a savante.

From Doctor Pascal by Serrano, Mary J. (Mary Jane)

But she does not like a femme savante, and ridicules, under the name of Damophile, a character which might have been the model for Moliere's Philaminte.

From The Women of the French Salons by Mason, Amelia Ruth Gere

Then your train clattered into the toy station, and you held my hand for a moment and said with a kind smile, 'Au revoir, petite savante, icibas.'

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane

He thus adopted a middle course, discountenancing alike the pedantry of the purists and the over-confident optimism of the vulgarists, who found in the uncouth popular speech all the material for a langue savante.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various