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insipience|ɪnˈsɪpɪəns|
[a. OF. insipience (15th c. in Godef.), ad. L. insipientia folly, f. insipient-em: see insipient.]
The quality of being insipient; lack of wisdom; unwisdom, foolishness.
c1422Hoccleve Jonathas 228 This Ionathas, this innocent yong man..The ryng hir tooke, of his insipience. 14..Songs & Carols (1847) lviii. 67 Whan..in women be fownd no incypyens; Than put hem in trust and confydens. 1603Florio Montaigne iii. iii. (1632) 459 All wisedome is unsavourie, that is not conformed to common insipience. 1625Shirley Love-tricks iii. v, Your accession is grateful, my most gentle lump of insipience. 1864Kingsley What then does Newman mean? 27 Too many prefer the charge of insincerity to that of insipience. |