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The condition of being uninformed or uneducated. Lack of knowledge or information.
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(in the plural) Sins committed through ignorance.
Examples of ignorance in a Sentence
At the same time their ignorance was profound.
So isn't it just possible that it could end ignorance, disease, poverty, hunger, and war?
He admitted ignorance, scientifically speaking, but was now committed to finding answers.
Deliver men from fell ignorance.
Ignorance seems to be at the bottom of all these contradictions.
It would not be the first time, or the last, that ignorance in the world exacted a high price.
The only way we are going to dispel ignorance is through education.
If you stop and think about it, ignorance is in your best interests.
The quest to end ignorance and the quest to end disease have two important similarities.
I think willful ignorance is a little closer to the mark.
Had it not been for a chance remark, Katie wouldn't have been aware of her ignorance.
Fred just shook his head at Dean's perceived ignorance.
More information leads to more peace, unless you want to argue that ignorance is more peaceful.
And that is why, if we are to use the Internet and technology to end ignorance, we still need people like Jim Haynes.
The story is the one of chief importance to the Buddhists - the story, namely, of how the Buddha won, under the Bo Tree, the victory over ignorance, and attained to the Sambodhi, "the higher wisdom," of Nirvana.
The ignorance of the people of the north made it very difficult for Methodism to benefit from these manifestations, until the advent of the Rev. Thomas Charles (1755-1814), who, having spent five years in Somersetshire as curate of several parishes, returned to his native land to marry Sarah Jones of Bala.
In the first place, the so-called internal causes of disease is probably a mere phrase covering our ignorance of the factors at work, and although a certain convenience attaches to the distinction between those cases where tender breeds of plants apparently exhibit internal predisposition to suffer more readily than others from parasites, low temperatures, excessive growth, &c.as is the case with some grafted plants, cultivated hybrids, &c.the mystery involved in the phrase internal causes only exists until we find what action of the living or nonliving environment of the essential mechanism of the plant has upset its equilibrium.
The Spanish and English settlers remained in ignorance, real or assumed, of each other's presence until 1769-1770, when Byron's action was nearly the cause of a war between England and Spain, both countries having armed fleets to contest the barren sovereignty.
Roger Bacon, in his severe criticism on the ignorance of Greek displayed by the most eminent scholastic writers, expressly exempts Erigena, and ascribes to him a knowledge of Aristotle in the original.
His ignorance of the sister kingdom cannot be described; it can only be illustrated by anecdote.
I feel sorry for the students at Irvine having to eat the gruel of Islamic ignorance fed to them by LeVine.
As in Chile, the indifference of the ruling class to the welfare of the common people is a primary cause of their ignorance and poverty, to which must be added the apathy, if not opposition, of the Church.
Many have already followed it, and conquering the lust and pride and anger of their own hearts, have become free from ignorance and doubt and wrong belief, have entered the calm state of universal kindliness, and have reached Nirvana even in this life.
Newton tells us himself that, when he had purchased a book on astrology at Stourbridge fair, a fair held close to Cambridge, he was unable, on account of his ignorance of trigonometry, to understand a figure of the heavens which was drawn in this book.
The first book expounds clearly, and with much vigour, the evil effects of the blind acceptance of the Aristotelian dicta on physical and philosophical study; but, as is the case with so many of the anti-Aristotelian works of this period, the objections show the usual ignorance of Aristotle's own writings.
Nowhere was his blind faith more plainly shown, combined as it was with total ignorance of the formidable migrations that were convulsing Asia, and of the complicated game of politics just then.
When you say you have secondary fibromyalgia, (pardon my ignorance) what exactly do you mean?
In doing so, he exposed the ignorance that saturates elected officialdom.
According to his own testimony he arrived at the university " with a stock of information which might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy might be ashamed."
When brought before the emperor, Gerbert admitted his skill in all branches of the quadrivium, but lamented his comparative ignorance of logic. Eager to supply this deficiency he followed Lothair's ambassador Germanus, archdeacon of Reims, to that city, for the sake of studying under so famous a dialectician in the episcopal schools which were rising into reputation under Archbishop Adalbero (969-989).
For Ignoratio Elenchi (ignorance of the refutation) see Fallacy.
In other respects the writer displays the most complete indifference, and even ignorance, with regard to the state of affairs in the West.
The great abuses which had overrun the church at this time arose principally from the ignorance of the clergy.
The Mussulmans of Backergunje are among the worst of their creed, steeped in ignorance and prejudice, easily excited to violence and murder, very litigious and grossly immoral.
The few who had taken the trouble to study Rumanian literature paid not the slightest attention to the vast MS. material accumulated during the years of the Phanariote dominion, and out of sheer ignorance and political bias condemned this period as sterile.
The pre-eminent wisdom which the Delphic oracle attributed to him was held by himself to consist in a unique consciousness of ignorance.
If not, it must be that ignorance is voluntary.
Ignorance regarding the inertia of matter drove him to this expedient.
Under him there was in fact a kind of early renaissance after centuries of barbarism and ignorance.
I laugh at her ignorance and she'll suffer for it.
In the 1980's, the British government ran its AIDS awareness campaign ' Don't die of ignorance ' .
Sins of ignorance, they are not so heinous, tho they are sins.
This tablet exposes woeful ignorance of the art of lettering.
Bandolier suspects that there remain huge lacunae of ignorance in the pharmaceutical world.
It was soon replaced by a New Age of ignorance and superstition, from which came a Holy Crusade.
To abstraction and ignorance everything is possible."
The professor of Arabic in Lisbon intervened to sustain the accepted view of the battle, and charged Herculano and his supporter Gayangos with ignorance of the Arab historians and of their language.
The passage possessed for them a mysterious charm, largely due to its isolation and to their ignorance of the historic speculations which suggested it.
It would be necessary for the court to engage in endless inquiries as to the true inwardness of a man's mind, whether his state of ignorance existed at the time of the commission of the offence, whether such a condition of mind was inevitable or brought about merely by indifference on his part.
Ignorance of a matter of fact may in general be alleged in avoidance of the consequences of acts and agreements, but such ignorance cannot be pleaded where it is the duty of a person to know, or where, having the means of knowledge at his disposal, he wilfully or negligently fails to avail himself of it (see Contract).