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Definition of Unwisdom

Unwisdom
Unwisdom Un*wis"dom, n. Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity; ignorance. Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute. --J. A. Froude.

Meaning of Unwisdom from wikipedia

- Islands of Unwisdom is an historical novel by Robert Graves, published in 1949. It was also published in the UK as The Isles of Unwisdom. It is a reconstruction...
- Crete. London: C****ell, 1949. The Islands of Unwisdom. New York: Doubleday, 1949; as The Isles of Unwisdom. London: C****ell, 1950. Homer's Daughter. London:...
- mistranslation because it means more than ignorance. He suggests the term "unwisdom" to be a better rendition. The term includes not only ignorance out of...
- poem by British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It relates to the unwisdom of paying "Danegeld", or what is nowadays called blackmail and protection...
- mistranslation because Avidya means more than ignorance. He suggests the term "unwisdom" to be a better rendition. The term includes not only ignorance out of...
- counterpoised to Prudence, representing a choice, or alone, representing the unwisdom of the actors in the painting. In Praise of Folly; the article contains...
- general costs of the war was one of the most serious acts of political unwisdom for which our statesmen have ever been responsible." Keynes had been the...
- Marie Powell: Wife to Mr. Milton (1943) King Jesus (1946) The Islands of Unwisdom (1949) Seven Days in New Crete (1949) Homer's Daughter (1955) Nonfiction...
- the necessity for fuller, truer self-expression, the realization of the unwisdom of allowing social discrimination to segregate him mentally, and a counter-attitude...
- and Malaita islands. The story of the voyage is told in The Islands of Unwisdom, a historical novel by Robert Graves. Pedro Fernandes de Queirós Hilder...