f enclosure, a _pass_ commonly between mountains. A _driveway_
is within enclosed grounds, as of a private residence. A _channel_ is a
water_way_. A _thoroughfare_ is a _way_ through; a _road_ or _street_
temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such time to
be a _thoroughfare_. Compare AIR; DIRECTION.

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WISDOM.

Synonyms:

attainment, insight, prudence,
depth, judgment, reason,
discernment, judiciousness, reasonableness,
discretion, knowledge, sagacity,
enlightenment, learning, sense,
erudition, prescience, skill,
foresight, profundity, understanding.
information,

_Enlightenment_, _erudition_, _information_, _knowledge_, _learning_,
and _skill_ are acquired, as by study or practise. _Insight_,
_judgment_, _profundity_ or _depth_, _reason_, _sagacity_, _sense_, and
_understanding_ are native qualities of mind, tho capable of increase by
cultivation. The other qualities are on the border-line. _Wisdom_ has
been defined as "the right use of _knowledge_," or "the use of the most
important means for attaining the best ends," _wisdom_ thus presupposing
_knowledge_ for its very existence and exercise. _Wisdom_ is mental
power acting upon the materials that fullest _knowledge_ gives in the
most effective way. There may be what is termed "practical _wisdom_"
that looks only to material results; but in its full sense, _wisdom_
implies the highest and noblest exercise of all the faculties of the
moral nature as well as of the intellect. _Prudence_ is a lower and more
negative form of the same virtue, respecting outward and practical
matters, and largely with a view of avoiding loss and injury; _wisdom_
transcends _prudence_, so that while the part of _prudence_ is
ordinarily also that of _wisdom_, cases arise, as in the exigencies of
business or of war, when the highest _wisdom_ is in the disregard of the
maxims of _prudence_. _Judgment_, the power of forming decisions,
especially correct decisions, is broader and more positive than
_prudence_, leading one to do, as readily as to refrain from doing; but
_judgment_ is more limited in range and less exalted in character than
_wisdom_; to say of one that he displayed good _judgment_ is much less
than to say that he manifested _wisdom_. _Skill_ is far inferior to
_wisdom_, consisting largely in the practical application of acquired
_knowledge_,