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Discover LudwigThe phrase "great erudition" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe someone who possesses extensive knowledge or learning, often in a specific field or subject.
Example: "Her great erudition in classical literature made her an invaluable resource for the research team."
Alternatives: "vast knowledge" or "profound learning."
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Arrowsmith-Young, now 61, talks fluently and passionately and with great erudition.
Carefully researched, drawn from reliable sources, de Thou's Historia is a model of great erudition and exacting scholarship.
His oeuvre thus consists of essays that display great erudition but make quick, darting points rather than full, sustained arguments.
His first work, Egregiarum seu Selectarum Lectionum et Antiquitatum Liber (1602; "Andreas Querneus' Book of Extraordinary or Select Readings and Antiquities"), drew attention to his great erudition.
He was a man of great erudition whose generosity of spirit and clarity of vision and sincerity inspired people like me.
As a consolation for feelings of intellectual inadequacy, de Botton raises Montaigne's question -- What good did their great erudition do for Varro and Aristotle?
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He was a man of great integrity, erudition and much complexity, beloved by those close to him.
He showed off great scholarly erudition and turned some of 19th-century New England's most celebrated three-namers — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes — into an elite squad of armchair detectives.
Wherever the Internet is speeding us, it's not toward greater civic erudition and enlightenment.
He wrote with great technical skill, erudition, and a strong satirical wit.
And, as I discovered when I interviewed him for a racing newspaper last year, he has great charm and erudition.
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