erudite

It should also be said immediately that the book gives great pleasure: it is elegant, beautifully written, erudite and morally concerned. From the Cambridge English Corpus

This later reception suggests that it was possible to unanchor the erudite component of the annotations from the political function of the original articulation. From the Cambridge English Corpus

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