insipience
(ɪnˈsɪpɪəns)
[a. OF. insipience (15th c. in Godef.), ad. L. insipientia folly, f. insipient-em: see insipient.]
The quality of being insipient; lack of wisdom; unwisdom, foolishness.
| c 1422 Hoccleve Jonathas 228 This Ionathas, this innocent yong man..The ryng hir tooke, of his insipience. 14.. Songs & Carols (1847) lviii. 67 Whan..in women be fownd no incypyens; Than put hem in trust and confydens. 1603 Florio Montaigne iii. iii. (1632) 459 All wisedome is unsavourie, that is not conformed to common insipience. 1625 Shirley Love-tricks iii. v, Your accession is grateful, my most gentle lump of insipience. 1864 Kingsley What then does Newman mean? 27 Too many prefer the charge of insincerity to that of insipience. |