Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Ignorance; want of knowledge or skill; nescience.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Lack of knowledge; ignorance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete ignorance; the lack of knowledge

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Examples

  • Some of the genetic combinations proposed inscience fictionmovies seem quite absurd indeed.

    Recombinant DNA? 2008

  • With this, Wilson has written a major work, one that will stand out and above inscience fiction studies.

    October « 2009 « Dynamic Subspace 2009

  • With this, Wilson has written a major work, one that will stand out and above inscience fiction studies.

    New Non-Fiction Announcement, D. Harlan Wilson’s Technologized Desire 2009

  • So Septimiusfought with his difficulty by himself, as many a beginner inscience has done before him; and to his efforts in this way arepopularly attributed many herb-drinks, and some kinds ofspruce-beer, and nostrums used for rheumatism, sore throat, and typhus fever; but I rather think they all came from AuntKeziah; or perhaps, like jokes to Joe Miller, all sorts ofquack medicines, flocking at large through the community, areassigned to him or her.

    Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • I deliver my ignorance in pomp and state, and my learning meagrely and poorly; this accidentally and accessorily, that principally and expressly; and write specifically of nothing but nothing, nor of any science but of that inscience.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • I deliver my ignorance in pomp and state, and my learning meagrely and poorly; this accidentally and accessorily, that principally and expressly; and write specifically of nothing but nothing, nor of any science but of that inscience.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 18 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • "With its generous contribution to the FIRST Robotics Competition at ourhighest Crown Supplier level, Luminary Micro makes it possible for us to turnthe FIRST vision of inspiring young people's interest and participation inscience and technology into a reality," said FIRST president,

    GuruFocus Updates 2009

  • “American Nervousness” incentennial ofChina’s Open Door treaty withculture ofeducation inin 1870Gilded Age avarice inlecture circuit inliterature ofnewspapers inpsychic loneliness ofracism inreligion inscience vogue insophistication ofin Spanish-American Warsports inUnited States Gazette

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • “American Nervousness” incentennial ofChina’s Open Door treaty withculture ofeducation inin 1870Gilded Age avarice inlecture circuit inliterature ofnewspapers inpsychic loneliness ofracism inreligion inscience vogue insophistication ofin Spanish-American Warsports inUnited States Gazette

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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