Word Meanings - IGNORANTISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.

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• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• EXTOLMENT
  Praise. Shak.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• SPIRITISM
  Spiritualsm.
• SPIRIT
  Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser.
• ADVANTAGE
  1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages
• SPIRITUALISTIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
• SPIRITUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle.
• IGNORANCE
  A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. Book of Common Prayer. Invincible ignorance , ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God.
• SPIRITUAL
  1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv.
• EXTOL
  1. To place on high; to lift up; to elevate. Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties. Beau. 2. To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a
• SPIRITOUS
  1. Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure. More refined, more spirituous and pure. Milton. 2. Ardent; active.
• ADVANTAGEOUSNESS
  Profitableness.
• SPIRITUALIZATION
  The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized.
• EXTOLLER
  One who extols; one who praises.
• ADVANTAGEABLE
  Advantageous.
• SPIRITUALIZER
  One who spiritualizes.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• SEXTOLET
  A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
• DISSPIRIT
  See DISPIRIT
• SELF-IGNORANCE
  Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations.