SAPIENCE

wisdom, sapience

(noun) ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

sapience (usually uncountable, plural sapiences)

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

Source: Wiktionary


Sa"pi*ence, n. Etym: [L. sapientia: cf. F. sapience. See Sapient..]

Definition: The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. Cowper. Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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6 January 2025

PREMATURELY

(adverb) (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation; “the child was born prematurely”


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