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Definition of Sapience
1. Noun. Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight.
Specialized synonyms: Astuteness, Deepness, Depth, Profoundness, Profundity, Discernment, Judgement, Judgment, Sagaciousness, Sagacity
Generic synonyms: Know-how
Derivative terms: Sapient
Definition of Sapience
1. n. The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.
Definition of Sapience
1. Noun. The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sapience
1. wisdom [n -S] - See also: wisdom
Medical Definition of Sapience
1. The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. "Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience." (Tennyson) Origin: L. Sapientia: cf. F. Sapience. See Sapient. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sapience
Literary usage of Sapience
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boke Named The Gouernour by Thomas Elyot (1883)
"Of sapience, and tlie definition there/. ALL be it that some men whiche haue ...
in a more elegant worde called sapience,0 therfore I will nowe declare as ..."
2. Chrestomathie de L'ancien Français (VIIIe-XVe Siècles): Accompagnée D'une by Karl Bartsch (1920)
"HERMAN DE VALENCIENNES, BIBLE DE sapience. D'après sept manuscrits. Manuscrit de
la bibliothèque princière ..."
3. The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1845)
"GO forth king, rule thee by sapience, Bishop be able to minister doctrine, Lorde
to true ... sapience."
4. The Boke Named The Gouernour by Thomas Elyot (1883)
"Of sapience, and tlie definition there/. ALL be it that some men whiche haue ...
in a more elegant worde called sapience,0 therfore I will nowe declare as ..."
5. Chrestomathie de L'ancien Français (VIIIe-XVe Siècles): Accompagnée D'une by Karl Bartsch (1920)
"HERMAN DE VALENCIENNES, BIBLE DE sapience. D'après sept manuscrits. Manuscrit de
la bibliothèque princière ..."
6. The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1845)
"GO forth king, rule thee by sapience, Bishop be able to minister doctrine, Lorde
to true ... sapience."
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