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nescience|ˈnɛʃ(ɪ)əns, ˈniːʃ(ɪ)əns|
[ad. late L. nescientia, f. nesciens: see next.]
Absence or lack of knowledge, ignorance.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Pref., Wks. (1653) 19, I can yet adde many more needfull particulars, which the Author hath in his nescience omitted. 1653Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. viii. 92, I need not instance in the ignorance and involuntary nescience of men. 1715A. A. Sykes Innoc. Error 26 If his salvation is not at stake by reason of his nescience. a1761Huggins in Boswell Johnson an. 1780, I will militate no longer against his nescience. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. iv, The miserable fraction of Science which united Mankind, in a wide Universe of Nescience, has acquired. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. (ed. 2) 160 These touching, and too sincere confessions of universal nescience.
b. An instance of this. rare.
a1625Boys Wks. (1629) 306 According to these distinctions every nescience is not a sinne. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. App. (1682) 157 The knowledge of them so imperfect as comes near a Nescience.
c. Const. of a thing.
1637Jackson Serm. Jer. xxvi. 19 Wks. 1844 VI. 93 Not out of a nescience of this rule. 1691E. Taylor Behmen's Theos. Philos. 107 A Nescience or Oblivion of Divine Tranquility. a1734North Lives (1826) III. 351 Brutes have an advantage over human kind..in their nescience of evils to come. 1856Ferrier Inst. Metaph. 414 A nescience of that which it would contradict the nature of all intelligence to know. 1875Manning Mission H. Ghost i. 6 There was in Adam a nescience of many things. |