sapience

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SA'PIENCE, noun [Latin sapientia, from sapio, to taste, to know.] Wisdom; sageness; knowledge. - Still has gratitude and sapience to spare the folks that give him ha' pence.
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