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Wisdom, knowledge, or understanding about the world; experience; philosophy..
Ælfric's words in these lives and his apologetic remarks on youngsters having to earn 'worldwisdom' are powerfully reminiscent of Augpstine's De doctrina Christiana: […]
In the Wessex labourer of today, who ploughs the field, walks the lonely heath, sits in his village inn and talks the Old Worldwisdom, he sees the same man who was there a hundred, five hundred, a thousand years ago.
After a few months, I come again to the record & it seems a mere bit of glistening tin or tinsel, and no such worldwisdom.
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Worldwisdom means Wisdom, knowledge, or understanding about the world; experience; philosophy..
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Ælfric's words in these lives and his apologetic remarks on youngsters having to earn 'worldwisdom' are powerfully reminiscent of Augpstine's De doctrina Christiana: […]
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