sciolism
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Etymology
Origin of sciolism
First recorded in 1750–60; from Late Latin sciol(us) “one who knows little,” (diminutive of scius “knowing”; see conscious, -ole 1) + -ism
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This is a point on which the ancients, I am aware, in their light-hearted sciolism laid great stress.
From A Modern Symposium by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
This is scholarship; the secondary information that has been popular is sciolism.
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.
From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett
Of all these cobwebs spun by the spiders of sciolism, the Euhemeristic or Spencerian view—that Gladstone is an historical personage—has attracted most attention.
From In the Wrong Paradise by Andrew Lang
Few things are as distressing as the sciolism of a second-rate English editor of a classic.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
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