Inacquaintance

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Lack of acquaintance; ignorance. uncountable

    "[…] 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."

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"[…] 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."

Etymology

From in- + acquaintance.

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