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sapience

noun
/ˈseɪpiəns/US/ˈseɪpɪəns/UK

Etymology

From Middle English sapience, from Old French sapience, from Latin sapientia.

  1. derived from sapientia
  2. derived from sapience
  3. inherited from sapience

Definitions

  1. The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.

    • As, much Experience, is Prudence; ſo, is much Science, Sapience.
    • Mean while the Son / On his great Expedition now appeer'd, / Girt with Omnipotence, with Radiance crown'd / Of Majestie Divine, Sapience and Love / Immense, and all his Father in him shon.
    • In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA