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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as ignorance.

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Examples

  • Some people are so ignorant that the reason for the ignorancy is because the can stand to see a black man to be president well shame on you all.

    Obama confronts Internet rumors with new Web site 2008

  • So go talk to a specialist and stop posting your inner emptiness and prove of ignorancy, like if it was some clever straw, or taken from the book of universal truth.

    Robert De Niro Joining Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Barack has his weak points as well, but his relative ignorancy of the way things "work" in washington is what I think would allow him to be a more effective president.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary On The Debate: Obama Is "Very Frustrated" 2009

  • Barack has his weak points as well, but his relative ignorancy of the way things "work" in washington is what I think would allow him to be a more effective president.

    Hillary On The Debate: Obama Is "Very Frustrated" 2009

  • Who said, "That's just pure ignorancy" with regard to the Riccardo Ricco affair?

    Archive 2008-08-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • Who said, "That's just pure ignorancy" with regard to the Riccardo Ricco affair?

    BSNYC Thursday Fun Quiz! (with announcement) BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • I don't understand how people can be so tolerant of ignorancy.

    hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2004

  • Those of you out there * cough*Punkgurl531*cough* who are inclined to tell me not to let ignorancy piss me off, just think.

    hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2004

  • Or she knew him, that second I say, and was but creature of her creature, VERGINE MADRE, FIGLIA DI TUO FIGLIO, or she knew him not and then stands she in the one denial or ignorancy with Peter

    Ulysses 2003

  • Or she knew him, that second I say, and was but creature of her creature, _vergine madre, figlia di tuo figlio_, or she knew him not and then stands she in the one denial or ignorancy with Peter Piscator who lives in the house that Jack built and with Joseph the joiner patron of the happy demise of all unhappy marriages, _parceque M. Léo Taxil nous

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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