sapienceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈseɪpiəns/, /ˈseɪpjəns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈseɪpɪəns/, /ˈseɪpjəns/

名詞

sapience (usually uncountable, plural sapiences)

1. The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter V, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 1st part (Of Man), page 22:

     As, much Experience, is Prudence; ſo, is much Science, Sapience.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 192–196:

     Mean while the Son / On his great Expedition now appeer'd, / Girt with Omnipotence, with Radiance crown'd / Of Majestie Divine, Sapience and Love / Immense, and all his Father in him shon.

   • 1886 [1882], Henry James, The Point of View‎, London: Macmillan and Co.:

     In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.

   • 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter VIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:

     Was it that his eccentric unsentimental old sapience, primitive in its kind, saw or thought it saw something which, in contrast with the war-ship's environment, looked oddly incongruous in the Handsome Sailor?

   • 1926, Dorothy Parker, “Ballade at Thirty-Five”, in The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker, New York: The Modern Library, published 1936, page 60:

     This, a solo of sapience, / This, a chantey of sophistry, / This, the sum of experiments— / I loved them until they loved me.

   • 2009, Robert Brandom, Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas:

     I then marked out three ways in which we can instead describe and demarcate ourselves in terms of the sapience that distinguishes us from the beasts of forest and field.

等位語

• sentience

派生語

語源

From Old French sapience, from Latin sapientia.

発音

• IPA: /ˌsaːpiˈɛns(ə)/, /ˈsaːpiɛns(ə)/

名詞

sapience (uncountable)

1. wisdom, discernment (especially religious)
   • 1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales‎, 1195-8:

     Povert is hateful good, and, as I gesse, / A ful greet bringer out of bisinesse; / A greet amender eek of sapience / To him that taketh it in pacience.

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2. (One of) the Poetic Books of the Bible.

派生した語

• English: sapience

参照

• “sapience, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.