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- noun Plural form of
knowledge .
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[3] In the measure that you will, you can understand provided the helps, called knowledges, are present or available, for these are like tools to
Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Emanuel Swedenborg 1730
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If it haue bin the Lords will that we fliould be holpen by the trauaile and feruice of the wicked in naturall Philofophie, Dialedicke, the Mathematicall knowledges, and other: lette vs vfe it, leaft if we neglcd the giftes of God, wil - lingly offered in them, we fufferiuft punifhment for our flouthfuUncs.
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His capacious brain filled with "knowledges" of the days when
A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900
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He dreaded for the children the strain of having to receive a large number of "knowledges"
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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Zealots for various "knowledges" (to use the curious plural sanctioned by Matthew Arnold) will urge the indispensability of their respective hobbies.
Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences George William Erskine Russell 1886
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It is an invention whereby the author will remedy for himself the complaint, that life is short, and art is long; whereby he will 'outstretch his span,' and make over, not his learning only but his _living_ to the future; -- it is an instrumentality by which he will still maintain living relations with the minds of men, by which he will put himself into the most intimate relations of sympathy, and confidence, and friendship, with the mind of the few; by which he will reproduce his purposes and his faculties in them, and train them to take up in their turn that thread of knowledges which is to be spun on.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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The Arizona censorship of ethnic studies, the destruction of associated knowledges and the silencing of dissent is one of those events that flash before us in ways that might at first suggest nothing more than a silly, irrational or anomalous happening.
Jeff Biggers: As Arizona Moves Bills for Guns and Bibles in Classroom, Tucson Teacher Calls for Return of Banished Books: Interview With Norma Gonzalez Jeff Biggers 2012
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The Arizona censorship of ethnic studies, the destruction of associated knowledges and the silencing of dissent is one of those events that flash before us in ways that might at first suggest nothing more than a silly, irrational or anomalous happening.
Jeff Biggers: As Arizona Moves Bills for Guns and Bibles in Classroom, Tucson Teacher Calls for Return of Banished Books: Interview With Norma Gonzalez Jeff Biggers 2012
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The Arizona censorship of ethnic studies, the destruction of associated knowledges and the silencing of dissent is one of those events that flash before us in ways that might at first suggest nothing more than a silly, irrational or anomalous happening.
Jeff Biggers: As Arizona Moves Bills for Guns and Bibles in Classroom, Tucson Teacher Calls for Return of Banished Books: Interview With Norma Gonzalez Jeff Biggers 2012
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BTW, This nation was built on diversity and the shared knowledges of other cultures.
CodyR Comments 2009
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