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nescience

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈnɛsɪəns/Part of speech nounSorted cceeeinnsStarts with NEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs)

Word origin

From Latin nescientia, from the present participle of nescire.

Used in a sentence

  • Better to have honest nescience than to have militant ignorance.
  • To lapse from knowledge into nescience is always possible—there is no law of God or man forbidding it.
  • Many a day we had been twenty-two out of the twenty-four hours in the saddle, each taking it in turn to lead through the darkness while the others let their heads nod forward over the pommel in nescience.

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