Meaning of inacquaintance | Babel Free

Definitions

Lack of acquaintance; ignorance.

uncountable

Examples

“[…] so in asthma, where there is no expuition, or the expuition does not appear till the paroxysm is subsiding, we ought, I think, in fair reason, rather to acknowledge or inacquaintance with the actual cause than to place our faith in one that has so little to support it.”

“He could scarcely have advanced a theory indicating a more unfortunate inacquaintance with the subject.”

“It is a form of which George Eliot seems especially fond: her young ladies refuse the most ineligible offers out of devotion to their aunts; her young gentlemen have all the arduous inacquaintance with Latin which their education requires […]”

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