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lacunae

/ləˈkuˌni/

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noun

  1. plural of lacuna

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/ləˈkuˌni/

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/ləˈkuˌnaɪ/
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We must also not forget that there are lacunae in the child’s comprehension of what it perceives.
Hans GrossCriminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and StudentsTranslated by Horace Meyer KallenProject Gutenberg ebook #1320
About a fourth, comprehending with lacunae the first portion of the dialogue, is preserved in several MSS.
PlatoTimaeusTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1572
More book examples (3)
You are forced to realize where the gaps, the lacunae of your knowledge come, and are made to fill them in.
Abraham MyersonThe Foundations of PersonalityProject Gutenberg ebook #1575
Returning to the lacunae which it so amazes Fabre to discover in our organization, even in the most perfect of us, are they fundamentally very real?
Georges Victor LegrosFabre, Poet of ScienceTranslated by Bernard MiallProject Gutenberg ebook #3489
Nor did Copernicus announce a truth perfect and complete, not to be modified, but there were many contradictions and lacunae which the work of subsequent observers had to reconcile and fill up.
William, Sir OslerThe Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913Project Gutenberg ebook #1566