inacquaintance

English

Etymology

in- +‎ acquaintance

Noun

inacquaintance (uncountable)

1. Lack of acquaintance; ignorance.
   • 1823, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine‎^[1], volume 1, page 380:

     […] so in asthma, where there is no expuition, or the expuition does not appear till the paroxysm is subsiding, we ought, I think, in fair reason, rather to acknowledge or inacquaintance with the actual cause than to place our faith in one that has so little to support it.

   • 1849 January, George Stanley Faber, “The Sacred Calendar of Prophecy”, in The Theological and Literary Journal‎^[2], volume 1, page 407:

     He could scarcely have advanced a theory indicating a more unfortunate inacquaintance with the subject.

   • 2013, David Carroll, George Eliot: The Critical Heritage‎^[3], page 233:

     It is a form of which George Eliot seems especially fond: her young ladies refuse the most ineligible offers out of devotion to their aunts; her young gentlemen have all the arduous inacquaintance with Latin which their education requires […]