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erudite
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  • She had a genial, erudite face and a pleasingly fluid voice.  (source)
    erudite = scholarly
  • An Erudite from head to foot, but not Jeanine Matthews.  (source)
    Erudite = in this novel, the group of people who most prize deep scholarly knowledge
  • 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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  • ... 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
  • Young L's erudition was astonishing.  (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.
  • 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
  • ...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
  • 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
  • They bent before this tornado of erudition.  (source)
    erudition = deep scholarly knowledge
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • He displayed his erudition,  (source)
    erudition = deep scholarly knowledge
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