Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Deep, extensive learning. synonym: knowledge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Learning; scholarship; knowledge gained by study or from books and instruction; particularly, learning in literature, history, antiquities, and languages, as distinct from knowledge of the mathematical and physical sciences.
- noun Synonyms Learning, Scholarship, Lore, etc. See
literature .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship.
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- noun
Profound knowledge , especially that based onlearning andscholarship .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun profound scholarly knowledge
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sometimes the aformentioned erudition is daunting -- I know I'm missing some aspects ...
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For people so skilled in erudition, none of them seem to really be able to articulate why any of this activity is important to them.
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ChadLove: I have always lived under the impression that erudition is inocculated at birth in Oklahoma hospitals.
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The only way an Okie can achieve erudition is by innoculation!
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The erudition is dexterously deployed, with a heartening leaven of demotic obscenity.
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The erudition is dexterously deployed, with a heartening leaven of demotic obscenity.
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The Fried Henderson is an approach to problem solving rooted in erudition, experience and a love of World of Warcraft.
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Littré, the Learned, who in erudition was né coiffé, has missed this obvious derivation.
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I expected a certain erudition, a certain level of scholarship and I have not found it.
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As a small tenant farmer's son he was on a level with the daughter of a country doctor, and as a highly-educated man with a university training and with some kind of professional career before him he might, in erudition-loving Scotland, have claimed admission to the highest social order next to the landed gentry.
mandarine commented on the word erudition
Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary
March 30, 2007
RevBrently commented on the word erudition
From p. 25 of Patrick Leigh Fermor's "A Time to Keep Silence":
I found no trace of the Dark Ages here, no hint of necropolitan gloom or bigotry, still less of the ghastly breeziness that is such an embarrassing characteristic of many English clerics. There was no doubt of the respect in which they held the cause to which their lives were devoted; but their company was like that of any civilised well-educated Frenchman, with all the balance, erudition and wit that one expected, the only difference being a gentleness, a lack of haste, and a calmness which is common to the whole community.
January 21, 2014