Unwisdom

/(ˌ)ʌnˈwɪzdəm/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) Lack of wisdom; unwise action or conduct; folly, foolishness..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Lack of wisdom; unwise action or conduct; folly, foolishness.
2. An instance of a lack of wisdom; a foolish act.
3. A foolish or unwise being or force.

Example Sentences

And all we conſyderynge her gracyous and charytable mynde, ſo unyuerſally, and conſyderyng the redyneſs of mercy and pyte in our Savyour Jheſu, may ſay, by lamentable complaynt of our unwyſedome, unto hym. Ah Domine! ſi fuiſſes hic—Ah my Lorde! yf thou had ben preſente, […]

Eccle[siasticus] 21. 15. […] Forſooth vnvviſedome is, &c. [i.e., which is plenteous in euill.] Sixtus [Pope Sixtus V] and the Louans, reading it amiſſe.

[T]he French government has committed the unwisdom of persecuting the Saint-Simonians. Persecution is always a bungler's craft, that in trying to stop one hole opens two.

The Earth is good, bountifully sends food and increase; if man's unwisdom did not intervene and forbid.

But as the sentence of Clement [Pope Clement VII] sealed the fate of the Nun of Kent [Elizabeth Barton], so the unwisdom of his successor [Pope Paul III] bore similarly fatal fruits.

A very common engine fault, leaking joints, provides an example of the unwisdom of undertaking design modification without full service experience. […] After only a short period of service, however, so many railways requested a reversion to the original type that the modification had to be abandoned.

He spoke of criminal carelessness and culpable stupidity; he spoke of the unwisdom of volunteering one's services as a guinea pig.

Reporting from Vietnam in 1945, he may have been the first person to assert the extreme unwisdom of trying to restore French colonialism with British troops.

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