Erudition

//ˌɛɹʊˈdɪʃən//

"Erudition" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

My brothers will be greatly loved by our citizens because of their erudition and modesty.

Hanako impressed the guests no less by her exotic beauty and elegance than by her erudition and refined conversation.

Tom is a man of erudition.

Erudition doesn't amount to wisdom.

Tom's speech sparkled with erudition.

Tom's erudition astonishes me.

His knowledge of Greek and Latin was singularly exact. He was deeply read in modern literature; and his surprising memory enabled him to display to the utmost advantage the various and carefully stored treasures of his mind. But though his erudition might have enabled him to have edited with accuracy the most obscure work in the whole range of ancient literature, his imagination would not have yielded him five lines of poetry.

Your erudition amazes me.

Góngora's poetry is characterized by erudition and complex sentences.

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Professor Archimedes Q. Porter was their only immediate anxiety. Fully assured in his own mind that his daughter had been picked up by a passing steamer, he gave over the last vestige of apprehension concerning her welfare, and devoted his giant intellect solely to the consideration of those momentous and abstruse scientific problems which he considered the only proper food for thought in one of his erudition.

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