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- noun Plural form of
ignorance .
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That is, that the scourges and discipline of wisdom may restrain the ignorances, that is, the slips and offences which are usually committed by the tongue and the lips.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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That is, that the scourges and discipline of wisdom may restrain the ignorances, that is, the slips and offences which are usually committed by the tongue and the lips.
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That is, that the scourges and discipline of wisdom may restrain the ignorances, that is, the slips and offences which are usually committed by the tongue and the lips.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision
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That is, that the scourges and discipline of wisdom may restrain the ignorances, that is, the slips and offences which are usually committed by the tongue and the lips.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Perhaps these curious "ignorances," as the Prayer Book calls them, impressed me the more forcibly because I was born a Whig, and brought up in a Whiggish society; for the Whigs were rather specially the allies of learning; and made it a point of honour to know, though never to parade, the best that has been thought and written.
Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography George William Erskine Russell 1886
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And even he went in there only as bearing in his very hands the blood of immolated victims, blood which he offered, presented, in the Holiest, with an express view to the Divine amnesty for another year's tale of "ignorances" ([Greek: agnoêmata], ver. 7), his own and the people's.
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I'm sorry, but presuming that the audience is likely to be unfamiliar with Melies exposes your own ignorances more than it does that of the one of the atypical "viewer" you claim to be speaking on behalf of.
Scorsese Adds Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen to Hugo Cabret | /Film 2010
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Obama knows we are at war with the terrorists and republican idiots like the "worst" Vice Pres. in history Dick Cheney, when you was in office the american public seldom heard from you now you are speaking out against A current President who's "CORRECTING" your ignorances.
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Like me, he is black, and it was the government that in part saved us from the ignorances of the people.
Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism Shelby Steele 2011
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They should go to those “enlightened” Con-serv blogs to keep their ignorances intact, or comment here with facts and supported opinions.
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