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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nescience  \Nes"cience\,  n.  [L.  nescientia  fr  nesciens,  p.  pr 
  of  nescire  not  to  know  ne  not  +  scire  to  know.] 
  Want  of  knowledge;  ignorance;  agnosticism. 
 
  God  fetched  it  about  for  me  in  that  absence  and 
  nescience  of  mine.  --Bp.  Hall. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  nescience 
  n  :  ignorance  (especially  of  orthodox  beliefs)  [syn:  {ignorantness}, 
  {unknowing},  {unknowingness}] 




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