ignorance
noun
the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
self-ignorance
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a word derived from
ignorance.
Example Sentences
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It comes of self-ignorance, and a low ideal taken for a high one.
From Home Again by George MacDonald
Your misery in the military life, like that of the nominal Christian, arose from your love of ease, your cowardice, and your self-ignorance.
From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by Hannah More
Jacques patronizing the fool, is one of the rarest shows of self-ignorance.
From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald
It was the measure of her own self-ignorance.
From Eleanor by Mrs. Humphry Ward
By holding one’s self entirely aloof from humanity one encourages self-ignorance.
From The Associate Hermits by A. B. (Arthur Burdett) Frost
