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ignorance

/ˈɪɡ.nɚ.əns/ noun B2
  1. The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information. (countable, uncountable) · She shows total ignorance about the topic at hand.
  2. Sins committed through ignorance. (countable, uncountable)
  3. Existential blindness. (countable, uncountable)

Plural ignorances

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“Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,” Baloo answered very earnestly.
The Jungle Book, p. 31 · B2
Marilla really did not know how to talk to the child, and her uncomfortable ignorance made her crisp and curt when she did not mean to be.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 39 · C1
Anne hurried home after breakfast and so remained in blissful ignorance of the disturbance which presently resulted in the Barry household until the late afternoon, when she went down to Mrs.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 152 · C1
I see nothing in it but your own wilful ignorance and the malice of Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 108 · B2

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