Sample Sentences for
erudite
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    But Edith is an Abnegation name, and my father's relatives must have been Erudite, so ...  (source)
    Erudite = in this novel, the group of people who most prize deep scholarly knowledge
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    Here the pale clergyman piled up his library, rich with parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition,  (source)
    erudition = deep scholarly knowledge
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    She had a genial, erudite face and a pleasingly fluid voice.  (source)
    erudite = scholarly
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    My erudite friend from Cambodia ... doesn't climb over fences with his foot in cement at three o'clock in the morning unless he thinks he has to.  (source)
    erudite = profoundly knowledgeable
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    There is no fool like an educated fool, and Simon will have to trot out his own European credentials, and flourish his erudition, and justify himself.  (source)
    erudition = deep scholarly knowledge
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    ... because getting to Lonesome Dove was such a hot, exhausting business. The few people who accomplished it were in no mood to stop and study erudite signs.  (source)
    erudite = showing deep scholarly knowledge
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    ...existence and consciousness-are axioms you cannot escape, ...implied in any action you undertake, in any part of your knowledge and in its sum, from the first ray of light you perceive at the start of your life to the widest erudition you might acquire at its end.  (source)
    erudition = deep scholarly knowledge
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    Disney Hall patrons were straining during intermission to hear the erudite observations of my sophisticated friend Nathaniel, who has a way to go but is coming along nicely.  (source)
    erudite = showing deep scholarly knowledge
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    Young L's erudition was astonishing.  (source)
    erudition = deep scholarly knowledge
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    I don't know anything about wars. I don't think even the most erudite scholars do. I think you have to fight one, to know it.  (source)
    erudite = having deep scholarly knowledge
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    They bent before this tornado of erudition.  (source)
    erudition = deep scholarly knowledge
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    For as the secrets of the currents in the seas have never yet been divulged, even to the most erudite research; so the hidden ways of the Sperm Whale when beneath the surface remain, in great part, unaccountable to his pursuers;  (source)
    erudite = deep scholarly
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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
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