What does inacquaintance mean?
Inacquaintance means Lack of acquaintance; ignorance..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Lack of acquaintance; ignorance..
[…] so in asthma, where there is no expuition, or the expuition does not appear till the paroxysm is subsiding, we ought, I think, in fair reason, rather to acknowledge or inacquaintance with the actual cause than to place our faith in one that has so little to support it.
He could scarcely have advanced a theory indicating a more unfortunate inacquaintance with the subject.
It is a form of which George Eliot seems especially fond: her young ladies refuse the most ineligible offers out of devotion to their aunts; her young gentlemen have all the arduous inacquaintance with Latin which their education requires […]
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Inacquaintance means Lack of acquaintance; ignorance..
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[…] so in asthma, where there is no expuition, or the expuition does not appear till the paroxysm is subsiding, we ought, I think, in fair reason, rather to acknowledge or inacquaintance with the actual cause than to place our faith in one that has so little to support it.
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