From the beginning of the fourteenth century, Dominican theologians in Italy had attacked poetry for its mendaciousness and corrupting influence, while early humanists had viewed it as a divine science and form of theology.
Definition of mendaciousness in US English:
mendaciousness
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From the beginning of the fourteenth century, Dominican theologians in Italy had attacked poetry for its mendaciousness and corrupting influence, while early humanists had viewed it as a divine science and form of theology.