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Sciolism   Listen
noun
Sciolism  n.  The knowledge of a sciolist; superficial knowledge.






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"Sciolism" Quotes from Famous Books



... his opinion. The Benthamite training may have stimulated the finer intellects, (and they were not few,) which came within its influence; but it is impossible to conceive anything more dreary than must have been the condition of a shallow mind, with a native predisposition to sciolism, after its owner had joined a society "composed of young men agreeing in fundamental principles, acknowledging Utility as their standard in ethics and politics," "meeting once a fortnight to read essays and discuss questions conformably to the premises thus agreed ...
— Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay • George Otto Trevelyan

... accord, knowing how fragmentary and crude they are. They were printed at the special request of my audience. Least of all, perhaps, ought I to have presumed to publish them, as I have done, at Cambridge, where any inaccuracy or sciolism (and that such defects exist in these pages, I cannot but fear) would be instantly detected, and severely censured: but nevertheless, it seemed to me that Cambridge was the fittest place in which they could see the light, because to Cambridge I ...
— Alexandria and her Schools • Charles Kingsley



Words linked to "Sciolism" :   superficiality, sciolist, sciolistic



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