egnorant
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See also: e-gnorant
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Adjective[edit]
egnorant
- Alternative spelling of e-gnorant
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
egnorant
- Pronunciation spelling of ignorant.
- c. 1750, letter recorded in the Colonial Records of Georgia:
- She was in the nattion & to my Knowledge thy were Egnorant to what they Signe
- 1790, Thomas Holcroft, The German Hotel:
- The poet may rack his brains and waste his days and nights, and raise his hopes, and, after years of study, observation, and anxiety, may come at length and place his lat stake on whech his varra being depends, on the deceesion and approbriation of the idle, the egnorant, the arrogant, and the riotous, who assemble in knots, predetermined to condemn, because to damn an author is damned high fun!