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erudition::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
| Type of | education |
| Has types | letters |
Examples of erudition
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Were there displays of taste and erudition from Douglas Hurd and Nigella Lawson?
From the guardian.co.uk
Nobody else could match its sweep, its erudition, its discernment or its warmth.
From the guardian.co.uk
By all those who value scholarship, erudition, and argument, he will be missed.
From the time.com
It may be Obama's very air of elegance and erudition that raises hackles in some.
From the thestate.com
My congratulations on not just your erudition but the compassion in your words.
From the expressandstar.com
The British comedian wasn't the only one flashing some serious erudition, though.
From the stltoday.com
The Flowers in the Mirror is a novel of fantasy and erudition in 100 chapters.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Such out-of-the-way images spring naturally from Ozick's prodigious erudition.
From the time.com
On rare occasions an author will quote the original German as a sign of erudition.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Eruditeness: profound scholarly knowledge
- (erudite) having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"
- The word erudition came into Middle English from Latin. A scholar is erudite (Latin eruditus) when instruction and reading followed by digestion and contemplation have effaced all rudeness (e- (ex) + rudis), that is to say smoothed away all raw, untrained incivility. ...
- (Erudite (Dungeons & Dragons)) This is a list of alternate base character classes to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. As base classes rather than prestige classes, they can be taken by newly created characters without need for any prerequisites.
- Profound knowledge, especially that based on learning and scholarship
- (Erudite) Exhibiting a degree of book learning fatal to success in any business or romantic enterprise.
- (erudite) (adj.) learned (My English teacher is such an erudite scholar that he has translated some of the most difficult and abstruse Old English poetry.)
- (erudite) It's just Marines being stupid.
- Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
