English Explanatory Dictionary

Nelsonian knowledge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Knowledge which is attributed to a person who has engaged in willful ignorance of that knowledge and ought to have known it.

Word forms

Nelsonian knowledge

Etymology

Derived from a tale told of Admiral Horatio Nelson of the British Navy.

Related words

ostrich instruction turn a blind eye willful ignorance
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