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Meanings of erudition in English

Russian
эрудиция
Portuguese
erudição
Spanish
erudición
Catalan
erudició
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Profound knowledge.

        эрудиция
        Portuguese
        aprendizagem
        Catalan
        ciència
        Spanish
        conocimiento

        Profound scholarly knowledge.

            aprendizagem
            Usage of erudition in English
            1
            Khadzhimurad asked the most wide-ranging questions and seemed to trust my erudition.
            The Guardian
            2
            No one else can bring your erudition or compassion to the project.
            Phantoms
            3
            The immense erudition of Bailly would have given it an inestimable value.
            Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men / First Series
            4
            He told me frankly he had a poor idea of my erudition.
            The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4
            5
            Yes, sprightliness is compulsory there; so are weightiness, and fervour, and erudition.
            Yet Again
            6
            When Peter Jay was a columnist on the Times, he favoured erudition.
            The Guardian
            7
            With the subtlety of a metaphysician St. Thomas combined a vast erudition.
            Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
            8
            In originality, erudition, and accomplishments Burke had no rival among Parliamentary speakers.
            Collections and Recollections
            9
            And I could not help smiling, being somewhat proud of my erudition.
            John Halifax, Gentleman
            10
            Bruno was evidently a man of vast intellect and of immense erudition.
            Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
            11
            All things which are written, are written for our erudition and knowledge.
            Sermons on the Card, and Other Discourses
            12
            He has been vastly lavish of erudition, of smut, and insipid raillery.
            Letters on England
            13
            Advertising your erudition at a time like this is worse than vulgarity.
            The illuminatus! trilogy
            14
            She is too happy to bend the knee before her husband's erudition.
            Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
            15
            On examination, I found all its erudition was taken ready-made from D'Israeli.
            The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
            16
            Who, save some man of erudition, has knowledge to-day of sumptuary laws?
            Characters and events of Roman History
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