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Word Meanings - SELF-IGNORANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations.

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  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • CHARACTER
    1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
  • CHARACTERISM
    A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
  • IGNORANCE
    A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. Book of Common Prayer. Invincible ignorance , ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God.
  • CHARACTERIZE
    1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
  • CHARACTERISTICALLY
    In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
  • CHARACTERIZATION
    The act or process of characterizing.
  • CHARACTERISTICAL
    Characteristic.
  • CHARACTERY
    1. The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark. Fairies use flowers for their charactery. Shak. 2. That which is charactered; the meaning. I will construe to thee All the charactery of my sad
  • CHARACTERLESS
    Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.
  • MISCHARACTERIZE
    To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
  • MENDELIAN CHARACTER
    A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
  • SELF-IGNORANCE
    Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations.
  • CONCERT OF THE POWERS
    An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.

 

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