knowlege
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]knowlege (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of knowledge.
- 1502, [Thomas à Kempis] ([…]), translated by Wyllyan Atkynson [i.e., William Atkinson], chapter II, in A Full Deuout and Gostely Treatyse of the Imytacion and Folowynge the Blessed Lyfe of Oure Moste Mercyfull Sauyoure Criste: […], London: […] Richard Pynson […], published [1503], →OCLC, signature A iii, recto:
- The moꝛe knowlege that man hath: ⁊ woꝛkythe nat ꝯfoꝛmable: the moꝛe ſhalbe his peyne at the day of dome: ⁊ therfoꝛe exalt nat thy ſylf of any craft oꝛ cunnynge. but rather fere that thou diſpleaſe nat god ĩ abuſiõ therof.
- 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page lv:
- All we can plainly distinguish in regard to that Law, is that not only, for it to be Law, the Will of him whom it obliges must submit to it with Knowlege of such Obligation, but likewise that, for it to be natural, it must speak immediately by the Voice of Nature.
- 1752, William Law, The Way to Divine Knowlege, page 124:
- His Knowlege of the Kingdom of Heaven is looked upon to be sufficient, as soon as he knows it, as he knows that there is such a Place as Constantinople.
- 1789, John Pinkerton, An Essay on Medals, volume 1, page 39:
- The principle of curiosity implanted in our breast, as the prime spring of knowlege, also concurs.