Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SA'PI-ENCE
SAP-ID'I-TY, or SAP'ID-NESSSA'PI-ENT
SA'PI-ENCE, n. [Fr. from L. sapientia, from sapio, to taste, to know.]
Wisdom; sageness; knowledge. Still has gratitude and sapience / To spare the folks that give him ha'pence. – Swift.
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