nescient

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The intentional willfulness of being nescient is impossible to deal with.

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  1. Destitute of knowledge; ignorant; characterized by or exhibiting nescience. Coles, 1717.

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  • With all the preceding comments and the absolutely nescient rants about self-defence going on, I'd like to quite a comment relating to this situation from another website: —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Those who engage in the culture of nescient activities shall enter into the darkest region of ignorance. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Wake up, my ignorant and psephologically nescient brethren! —  The Latest on Air America
  • His convoluted and nescient ramble marks him as one of the dimmest and most obtuse men that I have ever had the displeasure of listening to.
  • Any acquired insight or accrued perceptivity is the sole responsibility of the nescient explorer who ventures forth into this conventicle, as are any objections or frustrations, confusions or misinterpretations realized herein. —  From My Position... On the way!
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  1. = Old French nescient, from Latin nescien (t-) s, present participle of nescire, be ignorant, know not, from ne, not, + scire, know: see science.
 

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