ignorancen.

Brit.

/ˈɪɡn(ə)rəns/,

/ˈɪɡn(ə)rn̩s/, U.S.

/ˈɪɡnərəns/

Forms: Middle English ignorans, Middle English ignorence, Middle English–1500s ignoraunce, Middle English–1500s ygnoraunce, Middle English– ignorance, 1500s yngnorance; also Scottish pre-1700 ignorans, pre-1700 ingnorance.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French ignorance; Latin ignōrāntia.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Old French, French ignorance, ignoraunce (French ignorance ) error or sin committed through lack of knowledge (first half of the 12th cent.), lack of knowledge (late 12th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin ignōrāntia lack of knowledge, in post-classical Latin also error or sin committed through lack of knowledge (Vulgate) < ignōrant- , ignōrāns ignorant adj. and n. + -ia -y suffix³.Compare Old Occitan ignoransa (15th cent.), Spanish ignorancia (mid 13th cent.), Catalan ignorància , Portuguese ignorância , Italian ignoranza (all 14th cent.). In sense 3 probably partly after Arabic jāhilīya (see note at the time of ignorance at Phrases 2).

a. The fact or condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or awareness, either generally or about a particular thing. Also as a count noun: an instance of being ignorant.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun]

unwisdomc825

nutelnessa1200

ignorance?c1225

uncunningc1290

uncunnessa1300

unwittingnessa1300

unknowledging1357

lewdness1362

unsciencec1374

mislearninga1382

simplenessa1382

unknowinga1382

ignorancec1384

unwittingc1384

simplessec1391

rudenessc1400

unweeting14..

lewdhead1401

misknowing?a1425

simplicityc1450

unknowledge1470

discognisancec1475

unknowingness1486

non-knowledge1503

ignorancy1526

simplehead1543

unlearnedness1555

ignoration1563

rusticity1571

ignorantness1574

ignoring1578

inscience1578

ignoramus1583

ingramness1589

lack-learning1590

idiotism1598

ignoramus1598

idiocy1605

nesciencea1625

nescio1637

inerudition1685

unawareness1847

agnosia1879

moronism1922

cluelessness1960

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] > instance of

ignorancec1450

simplicity1574

nesciencea1625

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 203 Sunne & ignorance. þet [is] vnwisdom & unweotenesse.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. v. 18 Þe life þat synneþ by ignoraunce [L. per ignorantiam]..he shal offre a weþer wiþ oute weem..for vnknowynge he dede, & hit shal be forȝeue hym.

?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) cxlv. 6 (MED) Þe blynde in ignoraunce he makes seand in wisdome.

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 32 He synneþ propirly aȝens þe Sone þat synneþ of ignoraunce.

c1450 (c1440) S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (Longleat) (1904) 113 All sich ignorances hath non excusacion.

1554 Excellent & Right Learned Medit. sig B.ii Leaue vs to our selues in the sluttish swine tubbes and dirtie dregges of idolatrie, supersticion and barborous ignoraunce.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. ii. 46 This house is as darke as Ignorance, thogh Ignorance were as darke as hell.

1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. A3 It was the maxime that over-ruled the foregoing times, that ignorance was the mother of devotion.

1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. II 103 That very weak Sermon..which is an Ignoratio Elenchi (an Ignorance of the Point in Question).

1774 J. Beattie Minstrel: 2nd Bk. xxx. 16 Be ignorance thy choice, where knowlege leads to wo.

1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. v. 147 Much of the evil which exists in the world may be traced to mere ignorance.

1906 Sat. Rev. 3 Nov. 542/1 We have all in our degree the defects and the ignorances and self-opiniativeness of the self-educated man.

1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes v. 111 ‘What's the spread?’ I asked... Momentarily stunned at my ignorance, Squilly recovered and explained that [etc.]

2017 O. Sudjic Sympathy xv. 215 I guessed this was how police got suspects to talk, by feigning ignorance.

b. With of, about, (now less commonly) in, or subordinate clause: the fact or condition of being ignorant about a particular thing; lack of knowledge or awareness of the thing specified.

ΚΠ

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xv. 34 Summe han ignoraunce of God.

1426–7 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 12 His ignoraunce in swiche occupation and defaute of leyser also tendrely considered.

1566 Actis & Constit. Scotl. To Rdr. *iij Thair is..na excusatioun to the man pretendand Ignorance of the Law.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 595 Oversights of Writers, through negligence or ignorance in forren names.

1682 R. Baxter True Hist. Councils Defended 112 I confessed my Ignorance that I knew not whom the Pope meant.

1796 S. Horsley Serm. (1816) I. xi. 236 Their uninquisitive temper keeps them in a total ignorance about secondary causes.

1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. i. 1 The supposition is founded on an ignorance of the nature of the human mind.

1898 Argosy Sept. 318 In blissful ignorance of this fact we pushed ahead.

1923 Humorist 1 Dec. 451/1 He knew so much about one topic, and yet displayed such a lamentable ignorance about another, that it was difficult to account for him.

1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 9 Feb. b1/1 The contemporary American's purported ignorance in significant categories of knowledge.

2002 L. Purcell Black Chicks Talking p. xiv If these sort of books aren't written then there will be another generation that will grow up in ignorance of the plight of Indigenous Australians.

2017 New Scientist 24 June 38/3 The biggest obstacle is ignorance that donation is possible, says Lisa Burnapp, a transplant nurse at Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals.

2. An act arising from ignorance (sense 1); an offence or error caused by being ignorant. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] > act caused by

ignorancec1384

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. xiii. 39 We forȝeue ignoraunces [L. ignorantias] and synnes, til in to this day.

c1425 (c1400) Prymer (Cambr.) (1895) 62 Lord, remmembre þou not þe trespassis of my ȝougþe, and myn ignorauncis!

1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bviii^v That it may please the..to forgyue vs all our sinnes, negligences and ignorances.

1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 6 He neuer committed any ignorance, that might turne to the hurt or hinderance of his faith.

1611 Bible (King James) 1 Esdras viii. 75 Our sinnes are multiplied aboue our heads, and our ignorances haue reached vp vnto heauen.

1931 M. Chapman Imperial Brother 395 Speakers trod delicately lest they commit an ignorance.

1968 Mass. Rev. 9 376 We have gotten past politeness, and I have just committed an ignorance.

3. With the and capital initial. The period of Arab history before the arrival of the prophet Muhammad; = the time of ignorance at Phrases 2.

ΚΠ

1867 T. Chenery in tr. Al Ḥarîri Assemblies I. Introd. 56 The poets of Islam had added to the number which had been known during the Ignorance.

1881 W. A. Clouston Arabian Poetry for Eng. Readers 432 The lot of women among the Arabs of the Ignorance was a hard one.

1904 W. P. Ker Dark Ages 14 The student of heroic poetry may admire the temper of the Arabian Dark Ages—‘the Ignorance’.

2019 T. Mackintosh-Smith Arabs vii. 213 The clan that had run Mecca in the last decades of the ‘Ignorance’.

Phrases

P1. ignorance is bliss: if one is unaware of an unpleasant fact or situation one cannot be troubled by it.In later use sometimes in echoes of quot. 1747.

ΚΠ

1747 T. Gray Ode Eton Coll. 8 Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'Tis Folly to be wise.

1777 S. J. Pratt Sublime & Beautiful of Script. II. xxiii. 26 In every light we can possibly view this matter, ignorance is bliss, and foreknowledge, would, to all intents and purposes, be agony.

1862 All Year Round 12 Apr. 105/2 For the first time since my entrance into the harem, I began to acknowledge that there were cases where ignorance might be bliss; for there were evidently portions of the song so little suited to ears polite, that some of the women uttered exclamations of horror.

1892 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 9 The only excuse one may make for not knowing it is that ‘ignorance is bliss’. But if ignorance is bliss it's rapture to be wise.

1911 Daily Tel. 5 May 6/5 In her case ignorance is bliss, her knowledge of German cabaret life a negligible quantity.

2017 S. Karim That Thing we call Heart xxix. 245 Before this summer, I didn't pay much attention to my parents' marriage. Maybe ignorance is bliss.

P2. the time of ignorance (also the days of ignorance) and variants: the period of Arabian history before the arrival of the prophet Muhammad. [After post-classical Latin tempus ignorantiae (1650 or earlier in this sense) and its model Arabic jāhilīya, literally ‘state of ignorance’ ( < jāhil ignorant ( < jahala to be ignorant, to act unwisely) + -īya, suffix forming nouns).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods

antiquityc1375

Christian antiquity1577

the days of ignorance1652

the time of ignorance1652

dark ages1656

Lower Empire1668

the age of reason1792

Scythism1793

grand siècle1811

the Age of Enlightenment1825

the Hundred Days1827

Tom and Jerry days1840

regency1841

industrial age1843

Régence1845

viking age1847

ignorance1867

renascence1868

Renaissance1872

gilded age1874

jazz era1919

jazz age1920

post-war1934

steam age1941

postcolonialism1955

information age1960

1652 H. Hammond tr. M. ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm Shahrastānī in Let. Resol. Six Quæres ii. 76 The foulest thing that the old Arabs did in time of ignorance, was this, that a man marryed two sisters, and took, as heir, or successor, the wife of his deceased father.

1662 T. Stanley Hist. Chaldaick Philos. iii. 81 This Hellenism some conceive the same with the Sabaean superstition; what the Greek fathers call Hellenism, the Rabbins term Goth, the Arabians, Algiaheleiton, the time of ignorance and Paganism.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 185 Of the time of ignorance which preceded Mahomet, seventeen hundred battles are recorded by tradition.

1875 Internat. Rev. Sept. 651 The poems which have come down to us from the ‘times of ignorance’, are little more than ballads relating to petty wars and border raids.

1973 L. Sabourin Priesthood 95 This long chapter..will close with a brief investigation of priesthood among the Arabs of ‘the time of ignorance’, Muhammad's designation of the heathen period which preceded his coming.

2017 M. W. Muesse Four Wise Men iv. 206 The days of ignorance commenced when the Arabs began to forsake the exclusive worship of Allah and started to devote themselves to local, tribal deities.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	ignorance
释义	ignorancen. Brit. /ˈɪɡn(ə)rəns/, /ˈɪɡn(ə)rn̩s/, U.S. /ˈɪɡnərəns/ Forms: Middle English ignorans, Middle English ignorence, Middle English–1500s ignoraunce, Middle English–1500s ygnoraunce, Middle English– ignorance, 1500s yngnorance; also Scottish pre-1700 ignorans, pre-1700 ingnorance. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French ignorance; Latin ignōrāntia. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Old French, French ignorance, ignoraunce (French ignorance ) error or sin committed through lack of knowledge (first half of the 12th cent.), lack of knowledge (late 12th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin ignōrāntia lack of knowledge, in post-classical Latin also error or sin committed through lack of knowledge (Vulgate) < ignōrant- , ignōrāns ignorant adj. and n. + -ia -y suffix³.Compare Old Occitan ignoransa (15th cent.), Spanish ignorancia (mid 13th cent.), Catalan ignorància , Portuguese ignorância , Italian ignoranza (all 14th cent.). In sense 3 probably partly after Arabic jāhilīya (see note at the time of ignorance at Phrases 2). 1. a. The fact or condition of being ignorant; lack of knowledge or awareness, either generally or about a particular thing. Also as a count noun: an instance of being ignorant. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] unwisdomc825 nutelnessa1200 ignorance?c1225 uncunningc1290 uncunnessa1300 unwittingnessa1300 unknowledging1357 lewdness1362 unsciencec1374 mislearninga1382 simplenessa1382 unknowinga1382 ignorancec1384 unwittingc1384 simplessec1391 rudenessc1400 unweeting14.. lewdhead1401 misknowing?a1425 simplicityc1450 unknowledge1470 discognisancec1475 unknowingness1486 non-knowledge1503 ignorancy1526 simplehead1543 unlearnedness1555 ignoration1563 rusticity1571 ignorantness1574 ignoring1578 inscience1578 ignoramus1583 ingramness1589 lack-learning1590 idiotism1598 ignoramus1598 idiocy1605 nesciencea1625 nescio1637 inerudition1685 unawareness1847 agnosia1879 moronism1922 cluelessness1960 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] > instance of ignorancec1450 simplicity1574 nesciencea1625 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 203 Sunne & ignorance. þet [is] vnwisdom & unweotenesse. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. v. 18 Þe life þat synneþ by ignoraunce [L. per ignorantiam]..he shal offre a weþer wiþ oute weem..for vnknowynge he dede, & hit shal be forȝeue hym. ?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) cxlv. 6 (MED) Þe blynde in ignoraunce he makes seand in wisdome. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 32 He synneþ propirly aȝens þe Sone þat synneþ of ignoraunce. c1450 (c1440) S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (Longleat) (1904) 113 All sich ignorances hath non excusacion. 1554 Excellent & Right Learned Medit. sig B.ii Leaue vs to our selues in the sluttish swine tubbes and dirtie dregges of idolatrie, supersticion and barborous ignoraunce. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. ii. 46 This house is as darke as Ignorance, thogh Ignorance were as darke as hell. View more context for this quotation 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. A3 It was the maxime that over-ruled the foregoing times, that ignorance was the mother of devotion. 1749 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. II 103 That very weak Sermon..which is an Ignoratio Elenchi (an Ignorance of the Point in Question). 1774 J. Beattie Minstrel: 2nd Bk. xxx. 16 Be ignorance thy choice, where knowlege leads to wo. 1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. v. 147 Much of the evil which exists in the world may be traced to mere ignorance. 1906 Sat. Rev. 3 Nov. 542/1 We have all in our degree the defects and the ignorances and self-opiniativeness of the self-educated man. 1974 E. Bowen Henry & Other Heroes v. 111 ‘What's the spread?’ I asked... Momentarily stunned at my ignorance, Squilly recovered and explained that [etc.] 2017 O. Sudjic Sympathy xv. 215 I guessed this was how police got suspects to talk, by feigning ignorance. b. With of, about, (now less commonly) in, or subordinate clause: the fact or condition of being ignorant about a particular thing; lack of knowledge or awareness of the thing specified. ΚΠ c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xv. 34 Summe han ignoraunce of God. 1426–7 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 12 His ignoraunce in swiche occupation and defaute of leyser also tendrely considered. 1566 Actis & Constit. Scotl. To Rdr. iij Thair is..na excusatioun to the man pretendand Ignorance of the Law. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage* 595 Oversights of Writers, through negligence or ignorance in forren names. 1682 R. Baxter True Hist. Councils Defended 112 I confessed my Ignorance that I knew not whom the Pope meant. 1796 S. Horsley Serm. (1816) I. xi. 236 Their uninquisitive temper keeps them in a total ignorance about secondary causes. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. I. i. 1 The supposition is founded on an ignorance of the nature of the human mind. 1898 Argosy Sept. 318 In blissful ignorance of this fact we pushed ahead. 1923 Humorist 1 Dec. 451/1 He knew so much about one topic, and yet displayed such a lamentable ignorance about another, that it was difficult to account for him. 1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 9 Feb. b1/1 The contemporary American's purported ignorance in significant categories of knowledge. 2002 L. Purcell Black Chicks Talking p. xiv If these sort of books aren't written then there will be another generation that will grow up in ignorance of the plight of Indigenous Australians. 2017 New Scientist 24 June 38/3 The biggest obstacle is ignorance that donation is possible, says Lisa Burnapp, a transplant nurse at Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals. 2. An act arising from ignorance (sense 1); an offence or error caused by being ignorant. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] > act caused by ignorancec1384 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. xiii. 39 We forȝeue ignoraunces [L. ignorantias] and synnes, til in to this day. c1425 (c1400) Prymer (Cambr.) (1895) 62 Lord, remmembre þou not þe trespassis of my ȝougþe, and myn ignorauncis! 1544 Letanie in Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. Bviii^v That it may please the..to forgyue vs all our sinnes, negligences and ignorances. 1598 B. Yong tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 6 He neuer committed any ignorance, that might turne to the hurt or hinderance of his faith. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Esdras viii. 75 Our sinnes are multiplied aboue our heads, and our ignorances haue reached vp vnto heauen. View more context for this quotation 1931 M. Chapman Imperial Brother 395 Speakers trod delicately lest they commit an ignorance. 1968 Mass. Rev. 9 376 We have gotten past politeness, and I have just committed an ignorance. 3. With the and capital initial. The period of Arab history before the arrival of the prophet Muhammad; = the time of ignorance at Phrases 2. ΚΠ 1867 T. Chenery in tr. Al Ḥarîri Assemblies I. Introd. 56 The poets of Islam had added to the number which had been known during the Ignorance. 1881 W. A. Clouston Arabian Poetry for Eng. Readers 432 The lot of women among the Arabs of the Ignorance was a hard one. 1904 W. P. Ker Dark Ages 14 The student of heroic poetry may admire the temper of the Arabian Dark Ages—‘the Ignorance’. 2019 T. Mackintosh-Smith Arabs vii. 213 The clan that had run Mecca in the last decades of the ‘Ignorance’. Phrases P1. ignorance is bliss: if one is unaware of an unpleasant fact or situation one cannot be troubled by it.In later use sometimes in echoes of quot. 1747. ΚΠ 1747 T. Gray Ode Eton Coll. 8 Where Ignorance is Bliss, 'Tis Folly to be wise. 1777 S. J. Pratt Sublime & Beautiful of Script. II. xxiii. 26 In every light we can possibly view this matter, ignorance is bliss, and foreknowledge, would, to all intents and purposes, be agony. 1862 All Year Round 12 Apr. 105/2 For the first time since my entrance into the harem, I began to acknowledge that there were cases where ignorance might be bliss; for there were evidently portions of the song so little suited to ears polite, that some of the women uttered exclamations of horror. 1892 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Jan. 9 The only excuse one may make for not knowing it is that ‘ignorance is bliss’. But if ignorance is bliss it's rapture to be wise. 1911 Daily Tel. 5 May 6/5 In her case ignorance is bliss, her knowledge of German cabaret life a negligible quantity. 2017 S. Karim That Thing we call Heart xxix. 245 Before this summer, I didn't pay much attention to my parents' marriage. Maybe ignorance is bliss. P2. the time of ignorance (also the days of ignorance) and variants: the period of Arabian history before the arrival of the prophet Muhammad. [After post-classical Latin tempus ignorantiae (1650 or earlier in this sense) and its model Arabic jāhilīya, literally ‘state of ignorance’ ( < jāhil ignorant ( < jahala to be ignorant, to act unwisely) + -īya, suffix forming nouns).] ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > other historical periods antiquityc1375 Christian antiquity1577 the days of ignorance1652 the time of ignorance1652 dark ages1656 Lower Empire1668 the age of reason1792 Scythism1793 grand siècle1811 the Age of Enlightenment1825 the Hundred Days1827 Tom and Jerry days1840 regency1841 industrial age1843 Régence1845 viking age1847 ignorance1867 renascence1868 Renaissance1872 gilded age1874 jazz era1919 jazz age1920 post-war1934 steam age1941 postcolonialism1955 information age1960 1652 H. Hammond tr. M. ibn ʻAbd al-Karīm Shahrastānī in Let. Resol. Six Quæres ii. 76 The foulest thing that the old Arabs did in time of ignorance, was this, that a man marryed two sisters, and took, as heir, or successor, the wife of his deceased father. 1662 T. Stanley Hist. Chaldaick Philos. iii. 81 This Hellenism some conceive the same with the Sabaean superstition; what the Greek fathers call Hellenism, the Rabbins term Goth, the Arabians, Algiaheleiton, the time of ignorance and Paganism. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 185 Of the time of ignorance which preceded Mahomet, seventeen hundred battles are recorded by tradition. 1875 Internat. Rev. Sept. 651 The poems which have come down to us from the ‘times of ignorance’, are little more than ballads relating to petty wars and border raids. 1973 L. Sabourin Priesthood 95 This long chapter..will close with a brief investigation of priesthood among the Arabs of ‘the time of ignorance’, Muhammad's designation of the heathen period which preceded his coming. 2017 M. W. Muesse Four Wise Men iv. 206 The days of ignorance commenced when the Arabs began to forsake the exclusive worship of Allah and started to devote themselves to local, tribal deities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.?c1225
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