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  • He was ... esteemed by the women as a man of great erudition, for he had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's "History of New England Witchcraft,"   (source)
    erudition = profound knowledge
  • They disliked his erudition, such as it was; they disliked his skepticism, which they mistook for levity.†   (source)
  • Erudite, witty, and aloof, he consistently refused media appearances.†   (source)
  • I know a man of erudition when I meet one.†   (source)
  • The Commercial Daily, our traditional newspaper, tried to save our civic honor with an erudite and rather confused essay concerning the antiquity and cultural influence of the Chinese in the Caribbean, and the right they had earned to participate in Poetic Festivals.†   (source)
  • Lenny followed this flurry with an erudite riff on the German word Sprachgefuhl, a feel for language, for what is idiomatically hip—he reads up on things like this in hotels and on planes and back home in the smoky dawn of L. A. while he's waiting for a woman or a pusher.†   (source)
  • His thin frame and the shininess of his face make this possible, and also a quality of innocence that surfaces at times—he's apt, for example, in the midst of an erudite discourse on the economic distribution of infectious disease, to startle you by interjecting, eagerly, "Ask me a question about Lord of the Rings."†   (source)
  • A virgin audience like Colonel Scheisskopf was grist for General Peckem's mill, a stimulating opportunity to throw open his whole dazzling erudite treasure house of puns, wisecracks, slanders, homilies, anecdotes, proverbs, epigrams, apophthegms, bon mots and other pungent sayings.†   (source)
  • As for Captain Tucker, Adams considered him able and attentive, though, to judge by the few books in his cabin, no doubt lacking in erudition.†   (source)
  • Atticus killed several birds with one stone when he read to his children, and would probably have caused a child psychologist considerable dismay: he read to Jem and Jean Louise whatever he happened to be reading, and the children grew up possessed of an obscure erudition.†   (source)
  • Fosco Maraini, a member of the 1958 Italian expedition that managed the first ascent of Gasherbrum IV, a rugged neighbor of K2, was so appalled and fascinated by the Balti, that his erudite book about the expedition, Karakoram: The Ascent of Gasherbrum IV, reads more like a scholarly treatise on the Balti way of life than a memoir of mountaineering triumph.†   (source)
  • Let's face it, when I grew up—I mean, erudite people spoke British dialect, and there was no American dialect that was really anything but at best neutral.†   (source)
  • He must protect himself not only from without but from within, and against the most natural of impulses: though he earn a fortune, his role may forbid him the purchase of a razor; though he be erudite, it can befall him to mumble nothing but banalities; though be be an affectionate husband and father, he must under all circumstances withhold himself from those in whom he should naturally confide.†   (source)
  • No one in Ottawa could read a word of it; from which fact it was assumed that the report must be tremendously erudite.†   (source)
  • Lee said quietly, "So young to be so erudite.†   (source)
  • There'll be plenty of erudite controversy you can be sure!†   (source)
  • They bent before this tornado of erudition.   (source)
    erudition = deep scholarly knowledge
  • The same sort of process has perhaps been undergone by wiser men, when they have been cut off from faith and love—only, instead of a loom and a heap of guineas, they have had some erudite research, some ingenious project, or some well-knit theory.   (source)
    erudite = deep scholarly
  • Gringoire, without exactly understanding what the connection could be between his address and this question, was not sorry to display his erudition.   (source)
    erudition = deep scholarly knowledge
  • Yes, it was a job of nuance and erudition, Shalamov said.†   (source)
  • Then he adopted an expression of perfect erudition as he pretended to read.†   (source)
  • My allusions are compulsive attempts at false erudition.†   (source)
  • Then he spoke to the Archbishop of the lay saint he had known in their long twilights of chess, he spoke of the dedication of his art to the happiness of children, his rare erudition in all things of this world, his Spartan habits, and he himself was surprised by the purity of soul with which Jeremiah de Saint-Amour had separated himself once and for all from his past.†   (source)
  • An erect figure, a steady countenance, a neat dress, a genteel air, an oratorical period, a resolute, determined spirit, often do more than deep erudition or indefatigable application.†   (source)
  • It was enough that they were of like kind, and he knew it was only a matter of waiting discreetly for preferment until the right time, although it rotted Colonel Cathcart's self-esteem to observe that General Peckem never deliberately sought him out and that he labored no harder to impress Colonel Cathcart with his epigrams and erudition than he did to impress anyone else in earshot, even enlisted men.†   (source)
  • Oh, Flood-the-Gates used it incessantly, confusing juries with his erudition and confounding his peers with multiple decises.†   (source)
  • I wore a white tuxedo, and more erudite people might think I looked like a fool.†   (source)
  • It's what I said before—'grand,' that's what you are, grand and erudite.†   (source)
  • You're so-erudite, Randolph, that's the word, but it's not enough.†   (source)
  • Although Katherine had never read the Zohar, she knew it was the fundamental text of early Jewish mysticism, once believed so potent that it was reserved only for the most erudite rabbis.†   (source)
  • Instead she would copy pictures, or else she'd colour in the black-and-white illustrations in thick, erudite books of travel and history with her coloured pencils.†   (source)
  • Although not overly handsome in a classical sense, the forty-five-year-old Langdon had what his female colleagues referred to as an "erudite" appeal-wisps of gray in his thick brown hair, probing blue eyes, an arrestingly deep voice, and the strong, carefree smile of a collegiate athlete.†   (source)
  • Erudite.†   (source)
  • Ever since its opening in 1905, the hotel's suites and restaurants had been a gathering spot for the glamorous, influential, and erudite; but the effortless elegance on display would not have existed without the services of the lower floor: Coming off the wide marble steps that descended from the lobby, one first passed the newsstand, which offered a gentleman a hundred headlines, albeit now just in Russian.†   (source)
  • 'We were both erudite, weren't we?†   (source)
  • To a considerable extent the book was an expanded, more erudite rendition of the case for checks and balances in government that he had championed in his Thoughts on Government, and later put into operation in his draft of the Massachusetts constitution.†   (source)
  • Later, a very erudite journalist from South Africa, a young man named Tim DuPlesis, leaned over and said, "Excuse me, Rick.†   (source)
  • Thanks to Madame Lafayette, they were seated in a gallery overlooking the choir, "as good a place as any in the church," thought John Quincy, who in a long description of the spectacle in his diary demonstrated that besides being precociously erudite, he had learned, as his father urged, to observe the world around him and was well started on becoming an accomplished writer.†   (source)
  • This display of erudition was not too well received.†   (source)
  • Readers acquired erudition without study, authority without cost, judgment without effort.†   (source)
  • Mr. Ryder, the most respected of them wrote, rises like a fresh young trout to the hypodermic injection of a new culture and discloses a powerful facet in the vista of his potentialities..."By focusing the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism, Mr. Ryder has at last found himself: Grateful words, but, alas, not true by a long chalk.†   (source)
  • He renounced the pleasures of both tyranny and justice, of his populous couch, of his banquets and even of erudition—all to close himself up for thirteen years in the Pavilion of the Limpid Solitude.†   (source)
  • His scientific precision was impeccable and his erudition astounding; no one could refute him on the cooking utensils of Babylon or the doormats of Byzantium.†   (source)
  • He branched out erratically in all directions; he read volumes of specialized erudition first, and high-school primers afterward.†   (source)
  • He was alone, jobless at the moment, with sixty-five cents in his pocket, an unpaid rent bill and a chaotic erudition.†   (source)
  • "I can't understand it," he droned in an accentless monotone to anyone around him, "I can't understand how Ellsworth got so much power.... And Ellsworth's a man of culture, an idealist, not a dirty radical off a soapbox, he's so friendly and witty, and what an erudition!†   (source)
  • Mr. Eager could not resist the opportunity for erudition.†   (source)
  • Most zealously I seek for erudition:
    Much do I know—but to know all is my ambition.†   (source)
  • He was learned even to erudition, and almost an Orientalist.†   (source)
  • Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster's ark does not hold it.†   (source)
  • For at such times desire, or love itself, would revive in him a feeling of vanity from which he was now quite free in his everyday life, although it was, no doubt, the same feeling which had originally prompted him towards that career as a man of fashion in which he had squandered his intellectual gifts upon frivolous amusements, and had made use of his erudition in matters of art only to advise society ladies what pictures to buy and how to decorate their houses; and this vanity it was which made him eager to shine, in the sight of any fair unknown who had captivated him for the moment, with a brilliance which the name of Swann by itself did not emit.†   (source)
  • Everyone laughed at all this facetious erudition and looked now at Hans Castorp, who was also laughing and lifted his glass of vermouth to toast his "Virgil."†   (source)
  • In fact, his disappointment at the nature of those tongues had, after a while, been the means of still further glorifying the erudition of Christminster.†   (source)
  • People 'in society' know this index by heart, they are gifted in such matters with an erudition from which they have extracted a sort of taste, of tact, so automatic in its operation that Swann, for example, without needing to draw upon his knowledge of the world, if he read in a newspaper the names of the people who had been guests at a dinner, could tell at once how fashionable the dinner had been, just as a man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.†   (source)
  • He had never been fond of Mr. Casaubon, and if it had not been for the sense of obligation, would have laughed at him as a Bat of erudition.†   (source)
  • This is the reason why Monsieur the Principal has proposed to me the following subject, which has not yet been treated upon, and in which I perceive there is matter for magnificent elaboration—'UTRAQUE MANUS IN BENEDICENDO CLERICIS INFERIORIBUS NECESSARIA EST.'" D'Artagnan, whose erudition we are well acquainted with, evinced no more interest on hearing this quotation than he had at that of M. de Treville in allusion to the gifts he pretended that d'Artagnan had received from the Duke of Buckingham.†   (source)
  • The labors of these eminent divines are aided by those of innumerable lecturers, who diffuse such a various profundity, in all subjects of human or celestial science, that any man may acquire an omnigenous erudition without the trouble of even learning to read.†   (source)
  • In this manner, a man of talent, and of great antiquarian erudition, limited the popularity of his work, by excluding from it every thing which was not sufficiently obsolete to be altogether forgotten and unintelligible.†   (source)
  • way: with others, he deplored that innovating spirit in the time which could not even be prevented from taking an unnatural interest in the public service and the public money: with the physician he had a word to say about the general health; he had also a little information to ask him for, concerning a professional man of unquestioned erudition and polished manners—but those credentials in their highest development he believed were the possession of other professors of the healing art (jury droop)—whom he had happened to have in the witness-box the day before yesterday, and from whom he had elicited in cross-examination that he claimed to be one of the exponents of this new mode o†   (source)
  • But I delivered this written communication (slate and all) with my own hand, and Joe received it as a miracle of erudition.†   (source)
  • Indeed upon any theme of the most admired, because simply the most abstruse of the boasted erudition of the academy, have I ever found Ligeia at fault?†   (source)
  • He talked at length and with erudition of "aberration" and "mania," and argued that, from all the facts collected, the prisoner had undoubtedly been in a condition of aberration for several days before his arrest, and, if the crime had been committed by him, it must, even if he were conscious of it, have been almost involuntary, as he had not the power to control the morbid impulse that possessed him.†   (source)
  • STUDENT
    I crave the highest erudition;
    And fain would make my acquisition
    All that there is in Earth and Heaven,
    In Nature and in Science too.†   (source)
  • Marriage, like religion and erudition, nay, like authorship itself, was fated to become an outward requirement, and Edward Casaubon was bent on fulfilling unimpeachably all requirements.†   (source)
  • If they have sometimes recourse to learned etymologies, vanity will induce them to search at the roots of the dead languages; but erudition does not naturally furnish them with its resources.†   (source)
  • Democratic peoples hold erudition very cheap, and care but little for what occurred at Rome and Athens; they want to hear something which concerns themselves, and the delineation of the present age is what they demand.†   (source)
  • How far the judicious Hooker or any other hero of erudition would have been the same at Mr. Casaubon's time of life, she had no means of knowing, so that he could not have the advantage of comparison; but her husband's way of commenting on the strangely impressive objects around them had begun to affect her with a sort of mental shiver: he had perhaps the best intention of acquitting himself worthily, but only of acquitting himself.†   (source)
  • Small productions will be more common than bulky books; there will be more wit than erudition, more imagination than profundity; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored and rude vigor of thought—frequently of great variety and singular fecundity.†   (source)
  • Against certain facts he was helpless: against Will Ladislaw's existence, his defiant stay in the neighborhood of Lowick, and his flippant state of mind with regard to the possessors of authentic, well-stamped erudition: against Dorothea's nature, always taking on some new shape of ardent activity, and even in submission and silence covering fervid reasons which it was an irritation to think of: against certain notions and likings which had taken possession of her mind in relation to subjects that he could not possibly discuss with her.†   (source)
  • There followed a list of questions in erudite terms on the architectural merits of the Temple.†   (source)
  • He spoke still in that curious, that almost sullen Hat tone which had caused Shreve to watch him from the beginning with intent detached speculation and curiosity, to watch him still from behind his (Shreve's) expression of cherubic and erudite amazement which the spectacles intensified or perhaps actually created.†   (source)
  • Stroking his chin, drawling in the ecstasy of being erudite, Kennicott inquired, "Say, doctor, what success have you had with thyroid for treatment of pains in the legs before child-birth?"†   (source)
  • This turned out to be the Honorable Thornton Hancock, of Boston, ex-minister to The Hague, author of an erudite history of the Middle Ages and the last of a distinguished, patriotic, and brilliant family.†   (source)
  • As regarded her attainments, the only fault to be found with them was the same that a fastidious connoisseur might have found with her beauty, that they were somewhat too erudite and masculine for so young a person.†   (source)
  • His professional brethren, each for himself, adopted various hypotheses, more or less plausible, but all dressed out in a perplexing mystery of phrase, which, if it do not show a bewilderment of mind in these erudite physicians, certainly causes it in the unlearned peruser of their opinions.†   (source)
  • The lower the calling is, and the more remote from learning, the more pompous and erudite is its appellation.†   (source)
  • desirous of doing the best for their offspring, could only escape the draper's son by happening to be on the foundation of a grammar-school as yet unvisited by commissioners, where two or three boys could have, all to themselves, the advantages of a large and lofty building, together with a head-master, toothless, dim-eyed and deaf, whose erudite indistinctness and inattention were engrossed by them at the rate of three hundred pounds a-head,—a ripe scholar, doubtless, when first appointed; but all ripeness beneath the sun has a further stage less esteemed in the market.†   (source)
  • Mr Squeers, not being remarkably erudite, appeared to be considerably puzzled by this first prize, which was in an engrossing hand, and not very legible except to a practised eye.†   (source)
  • She was learned, erudite, wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than a Benedictine nun.†   (source)
  • At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.†   (source)
  • Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures on the anatomy of the Cetacea; and by help of the windlass, hold up a specimen rib for exhibition?†   (source)
  • Lydgate said to himself that the clergyman whose abilities were so painful to Mr. Bulstrode, appeared to have found an agreeable resort in this certainly not erudite household.†   (source)
  • An erudite neologism then sprang up in France which was confined to the educated classes, and which produced no sensible effect, or at least a very gradual one, upon the people.†   (source)
  • The upper window from which the funeral could be well seen was in the room occupied by Mr. Casaubon when he had been forbidden to work; but he had resumed nearly his habitual style of life now in spite of warnings and prescriptions, and after politely welcoming Mrs. Cadwallader had slipped again into the library to chew a cud of erudite mistake about Cush and Mizraim.†   (source)
  • These were searched and sought out through the whole nation, by the prince and his wisest counsellors, among such of the priesthood as were most deservedly distinguished by the sanctity of their lives, and the depth of their erudition; who were indeed the spiritual fathers of the clergy and the people.   (source)
  • Yeah, are you sure you don't belong with the Erudite, Peter?   (source)
    erudite = in this novel, the group of people who most prize deep scholarly knowledge
  • Yeah, but he doesn't have aptitude for Erudite.   (source)
  • The Erudite can't drive through the fence anyway, and it will take them a while to reach the gate.   (source)
  • Why would it matter to the representative of the Erudite, of all people?   (source)
  • I have equal aptitude for Erudite as I do for Dauntless and Abnegation, after all.   (source)
  • Soon the Erudite and the corrupt Dauntless leaders will look for us, and we will have to move on.   (source)
  • They wouldn't side with the Erudite—they would never do something that underhanded.   (source)
  • "Yeah, I talked to her about getting out of Erudite once, while I was there," says Zeke.   (source)
  • At home, being compared to an Erudite would be an insult, but she says it like a compliment.   (source)
  • "We all know that Erudite's power lies not in its people but in its information," says Evelyn.   (source)
  • "What, you don't want to hang out with your Erudite buddies?" says Christina.   (source)
  • How do you expect to navigate Erudite headquarters on your own?   (source)
  • And the same is true of Erudite, I realize.   (source)
  • The building on my left overlaps with Erudite headquarters on its far left side.   (source)
  • This is a new development, courtesy of the Erudite.   (source)
  • The Erudite woman's mouth is open, but she doesn't speak.   (source)
  • My brother, born for Abnegation, Erudite?   (source)
  • Tobias follows us, walking backward so he can keep his gun on the Erudite woman.   (source)
  • The Erudite keep records; it's in their nature.   (source)
  • We can break the security cameras in Dauntless headquarters so the Erudite can't see us.   (source)
  • The Erudite don't let the Abnegation into their compound anymore.   (source)
  • "Those of you who assisted us in the effort to take down Erudite will be rewarded," says Evelyn.   (source)
  • Are we sure she's not just an Erudite spy?   (source)
  • Now the Erudite are attacking my father.   (source)
  • "Is Susan another Erudite defector?" says Lynn, stabbing a string bean with her fork.   (source)
  • "But," I say, "why would Erudite team up with Dauntless?"   (source)
  • Even without the Dauntless helping them, the Erudite will find another way to—   (source)
  • I worry that your father's blustering about Erudite has been to your detriment.   (source)
  • "My orders are to take only two of you back to Erudite headquarters for testing," says Eric.   (source)
  • The rest are from Erudite and, surprisingly, Candor.   (source)
  • Or maybe he believes the articles the Erudite release about us—them, I remind myself.   (source)
  • We can't attack Dauntless traitors and Erudite without Candor's numbers.   (source)
  • If you want to, you can feel free to storm the Erudite compound by yourselves.   (source)
  • "Well, you missed Christina almost punching an Erudite," says Al.   (source)
  • Is it Dauntless traitors, guarding me, or the Erudite, observing me?   (source)
  • Evidently the Erudite now want to speed up the process.   (source)
  • Even if we manage to kill Jeanine, could the Erudite be trusted not to attack and control us again?   (source)
  • The Erudite have been attacking us with these reports for months.   (source)
  • Erudite doesn't have weapons, and they don't know how to fight—but the Dauntless do.   (source)
  • And right now, that is going to listen to what Jack Kang has to say to the Erudite.   (source)
  • "I can't go back to Erudite any more than they can," says Caleb.   (source)
  • On it is a picture of Jeanine, the Erudite representative.   (source)
  • I twist my head around to find Caleb in the crowd of Erudite behind me.   (source)
  • She walks to the far corner of the cafeteria, where a few tables of Erudite refugees sit.   (source)
  • I hear mutters all around me as we pass the group of Erudite bystanders.   (source)
  • You want me to go hang out at the Erudite compound for the day, you had better give me a reason!   (source)
  • He would not have burst into Erudite headquarters alone.   (source)
  • Since then, Erudite has released two articles about Abnegation.   (source)
  • Because she is Erudite's representative, she is the one who released that report about my father.   (source)
  • And one of Erudite's missions as a faction was to become both—essential and enriching.   (source)
  • What are you going to do with the Erudite data?   (source)
  • Maybe Four was one of the Erudite, which explains why he hates Abnegation.   (source)
  • "I also wanted to ask you if we can talk to the Erudite you're keeping safe here," I say.   (source)
  • We may not be Erudite, but mental preparedness is one aspect of your Dauntless training.   (source)
  • The Erudite sit frozen at their desks, staring at us.   (source)
  • "Because giving an Erudite boy a car is more important than giving food to the factionless," I snap.   (source)
  • He and I both transferred from Erudite, only his aptitude test was inconclusive.   (source)
  • But no one gets to control me, especially not the Erudite.   (source)
  • It's one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation's incompetence.   (source)
  • The Erudite have also ordered all Divergent to be turned over to Erudite.   (source)
  • I should have known that the main Erudite building would be a library.   (source)
  • I thought the Erudite didn't like nicknames?   (source)
  • "Not all those Erudite articles were full of lies," I say, narrowing my eyes at Marcus.   (source)
  • And the Erudite will help us ....by doing what?   (source)
  • Every two days until one of you delivers yourself to Erudite headquarters, this will happen again.   (source)
  • I got a copy of every report the Erudite have released in the last six months.   (source)
  • "Rankings?" asks the mousy-haired Erudite girl to my right.   (source)
  • "Even if it's run by the Erudite?" says Caleb.   (source)
  • The same face dominates the Erudite library; it is plastered across every article Erudite releases.   (source)
  • She looks up and focuses her watery eyes on one of the Erudite.   (source)
  • Seeing him in the Erudite compound feels like a dream now.   (source)
  • I stare at my Erudite clothes while the others strip off their outer layers of clothing.   (source)
  • "More closely than Erudite and any other faction," he says.   (source)
  • Caleb was the obvious choice, since he knows the most about the Erudite plan.   (source)
  • —you have left us to die at the hands of the Erudite.   (source)
  • But it made me wonder what the Erudite are doing that requires night light.   (source)
  • One of the Erudite scientists taps his own computer screen, and an image appears on the left wall.   (source)
  • Four: Eric and Max are working with the Erudite.   (source)
  • Then an Erudite boy in a blue sweater shoves me.   (source)
  • So Erudite and Amity work together, then?   (source)
  • I glance at the boy to my left, who was Erudite and now looks as pale and nervous as I should feel.   (source)
  • Tobias said that dealing with Erudite was more important than finding out the truth.   (source)
  • Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.   (source)
  • For the first time I notice how sad he looks when he talks about the Erudite.   (source)
  • "Top of the Hancock building to spy on Erudite," Lynn says.   (source)
  • She must have talked to the Erudite reporter that Christina yelled at.   (source)
  • I recognize it from my Faction History textbook, the unit on Erudite and medicine.   (source)
  • An Erudite girl by the door reaches out to grab the boy's hand, straining, but he is too far behind.   (source)
  • Did I do anything that could have been interpreted as siding with Erudite?   (source)
  • "You want us to jump off a ledge?" asks an Erudite girl.   (source)
  • Bathing from the sink of an abandoned building, on the run from the Erudite.   (source)
  • But they may not fight the Erudite either.   (source)
  • The Erudite buildings loom above me, dark and unfamiliar.   (source)
  • Peter snorts a little, and we walk between the Erudite lab tables.   (source)
  • Finally Johanna walks in with an Erudite woman.   (source)
  • "We're close to Erudite headquarters, right?" asks Christina, bumping Will's shoulder with her own.   (source)
  • Some of the Erudite texts called them the 'enriching factions.'   (source)
  • Did he always know that he would choose Erudite?   (source)
  • Standing a few yards in front of me are two Erudite men with their arms folded.   (source)
  • Is there any other way to Erudite headquarters?   (source)
  • But then again, I haven't interacted with many young Erudite.   (source)
  • The Erudite thirst for knowledge filling all the hidden places in his room.   (source)
  • "That's a strange outfit for someone who is supposed to despise Erudite," he says.   (source)
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