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Definition of Nescients
1. nescient [n] - See also: nescient
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nescients
Literary usage of Nescients
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lessons from Nature, as Manifested in Mind and Matter by St. George Jackson Mivart (1876)
"In other words, nescients are thus again reduced to absolute scepticism by another
road ; and, indeed, that inevitable gulf yawns to receive them by ..."
2. The Spiritual Magazine (1875)
"... a phenomenon of which most non-nescients admit that some of the thousands of
seriously affirmed cases are true—it is a coincidence. What is coincidence? ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1836)
"... have never yet been indoctrinated in this suhtle investigation, it will perhaps
be well to inform the fascinating nescients of its general results. ..."
4. Essays on the Philosophy of Theism by William George Ward (1884)
"A far larger number, of whom Professor Huxley may be taken as representative,
are " nescients;" ie deny that man can know certainly, or even probably, ..."
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