Both Uses of
sagacious
in
The Idiot
- This last fact could, of course, reflect nothing but credit upon the general; and yet, though unquestionably a sagacious man, he had his own little weaknesses-very excusable ones,—one of which was a dislike to any allusion to the above circumstance.†
Chpt 1.2 *sagacious = wise
- One of the murderers suddenly changed into a woman before your very eyes; then the woman was transformed into a hideous, cunning little dwarf; and you believed it, and accepted it all almost as a matter of course—while at the same time your intelligence seemed unusually keen, and accomplished miracles of cunning, sagacity, and logic!†
Chpt 3.10sagacity = wisdom
Definition:
wise -- especially through long experience and thoughtfulness