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sciolism

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈsaɪ.ə.lɪ.z(ə)m/Part of speech nounSorted ciilmossStarts with SEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. pretentious superficiality of knowledge

Used in a sentence

  • Indeed, I ſometimes incline to hope that infidelity is arrived at its higheſt pitch, and that ſcioliſm may advance into found knowledge and ſaving faith […].
  • Here are painted, the miſchiefs of the multiplication of political Scioliſts, and the progreſs of political Scioliſm; the decay of profound knowledge, the perverſion of what we retain, and the decline of religion.
  • The contempt […] is not accidental, nor yet altogether owing to that epidemic of a proud ignorance occasioned by a diffused sciolism, which gave a sickly and hectic shewiness to the latter half of the last century.

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