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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ERUDI'TION, n. Learning; knowledge gained by study, or from books and instruction; particularly, learning in literature, as distinct from the sciences, as in history, antiquity and languages. The Scaligers were men of deep erudition.
The most useful erudition for republicans is that which exposes the causes of discords.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: profound scholarly knowledge [syn: eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship, encyclopedism, encyclopaedism]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century extensive knowledge acquired chiefly from books ; profound, recondite, or bookish learning Synonyms: see knowledge

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Erudition Er`u*di"tion, n. [L. eruditio: cf. F. ['e]rudition.] The act of instructing; the result of thorough instruction; the state of being erudite or learned; the acquisitions gained by extensive reading or study; particularly, learning in literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship. The management of a young lady's person is not be overlooked, but the erudition of her mind is much more to be regarded. --Steele. The gay young gentleman whose erudition sat so easily upon him. --Macaulay. Syn: Literature; learning. See Literature.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Erudition is great academic knowledge. (FORMAL) His erudition was apparently endless.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Knowledge (gained by reading and study), learning, lore, scholarship, literary learning, historical and archaeological lore.

Moby Thesaurus

Sophia, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, broad-mindedness, broadening the mind, classical scholarship, classicism, cultivation, culture, depth, donnishness, education, eruditeness, good understanding, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectual acquirement, intellectualism, intellectuality, knowledge, learnedness, learning, letters, literacy, mastery of skills, mellow wisdom, memorization, mental cultivation, mental culture, pedantism, pedantry, profoundness, profundity, reading, ripe wisdom, sageness, sapience, scholarliness, scholarship, science, seasoned understanding, self-instruction, sound understanding, storing the mind, studiousness, wisdom, wiseness