self-ignorance
- a word derived from ignorance.
Example Sentences
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By holding one’s self entirely aloof from humanity one encourages self-ignorance.
From The Associate Hermits by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)
But man, in his self-ignorance, does not perceive their awful truth.
From Sermons to the Natural Man by Shedd, William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer)
It was the measure of her own self-ignorance.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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 More, Hannah
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 MacDonald, George
