erudition


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Synonyms for erudition

learning

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Synonyms for erudition

known facts, ideas, and skill that have been imparted

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Synonyms for erudition

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Ortelius was noted for his unique combination of talents: his connoisseurship, or ability to judge art by looking, and his erudition, or extensive knowledge acquired from books, with the ultimate goal of enlightenment.
The case made for the erudition of the Theophrastus redivivus is moderately successful, combined as it is with a demonstration (through comparative analysis of how the author cites the three examples of Pomponazzi, Cicero, and Bodin) of this rather slippery polemicist's tendency to manipulate his sources.
Succinctly, EcoWings 6 was fleeced with delectation and erudition which rejuvenated the Ecosmob team.
The move follows a partnership with the Erudition Schools Trust, a charitable organisation committed to raising achievement at academies and free schools across England.
Oliver and his colleagues argued that liberals, consciously or unconsciously, signal cultural tastes and erudition when they pick their child's moniker.
This academy is the first to be run by the Erudition Trust, which is a newly set up company and has never run a school before.
This exaltation of learning reveals a profound desire for erudition, which I employ as an intellectuality that goes beyond fundamental educational training and speaks to what Du Bois has called "the object of the work of the schools--intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it--this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
"The true personal journey is an internal process that can only happen with another enabler, the tools of erudition, that is, with reading, writing, and reflection," he said.
Jews of faith, practice and erudition are aware it's only a matter of time before Mashiach is revealed!
He who tweets and is never off the telly or radio showing off his wit, bile and erudition, should learn a very simple lesson.
The breadth of his erudition was matched by the range of his imaginative sympathies--arguably a peerless combination among modern British historians --and on the basis of his superb The Lost World of British Communism (published in 2006, ten years after his sadly premature death) I am confident of further rewards.
Mr Powell was guilty of dressing up his prejudices and fears in the language of erudition.
"Despite my intelligence, my tact, the delicacy and refinement of my feelings, my growing erudition, I remained a creature of great disabilities.
52, 55), or to the tension between "brute strength" and "scientific erudition" embodied by Eugen Sandow (p.
The erudition is breathtaking, although there are places where the premise is so broadly applied that the phenomenon of melancholy loses all definition.