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ignorance
English
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Alternative forms
- ignoraunce
Etymology
From Old French ignorance. Surface analysis: ignore +? -ance
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?g'n?r?ns, IPA(key): /???n???ns/
Noun
ignorance (countable and uncountable, plural ignorances)
- The condition of being uninformed or uneducated. Lack of knowledge or information.
- Synonyms: blindness, cluelessness, knowledgelessness, unawareness, unknowingness, unknowledge
- (religion, in the plural) Sins committed through ignorance.
Derived terms
- ignorance is bliss
- ignorant
- willful ignorance
Translations
Usage notes
- In Roman Catholic theology, vincible or wilful ignorance is such as one might be fairly expected to overcome, hence it can never be an excuse for sin, whether of omission or of commission; while invincible ignorance, which a person cannot help or abate, altogether excuses from guilt.
Anagrams
- ear coning, enorganic, garcinone
French
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin ignorantia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.??.???s/
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
ignorance f (plural ignorances)
- ignorance
Further reading
- “ignorance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- rencognai
Old French
Etymology
Latin ign?rantia.
Noun
ignorance f (oblique plural ignorances, nominative singular ignorance, nominative plural ignorances)
- ignorance (lacking of knowledge; lack of understanding)
- something that one is ignorant of
Descendants
- English: ignorance
- French: ignorance
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (ignorance, supplement)
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unwit
English
Etymology
un- +? wit
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /??nw?t/
- (verb) IPA(key): /?n?w?t/
Noun
unwit (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Lack of wit or understanding; ignorance.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Verb
unwit (third-person singular simple present unwits, present participle unwitting, simple past and past participle unwitted)
- To deprive of wit.
Anagrams
- Wintu
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