Definition: (noun) Profound scholarly knowledge.
Synonyms: encyclopedism, learning, scholarship.
Usage: They, like himself, had been bred in the studious cloisters of a university, and were supposed to possess all the erudition which mankind has hoarded up from age to age.
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