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noun, feminine

ignorance

/i.ɲɔ.ʁɑ̃s/

noun, feminine/i.ɲɔ.ʁɑ̃s/plural: ignorances

ignorance

Tous les enfans ſont des athées; ils n'ont aucune idée de Dieu: ſont-ils donc criminels à cauſe de cette ignorance?All children are born atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?

Inherited from Old French ignorance, borrowed from Latin ignōrantia.