"wiseling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From wise + -ling.",
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          "text": "This may well put to the blush those wiselings that show themselves fools in so speaking. ― Donne."
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          "text": "This is the book that makes fools of little wiselings.",
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          "ref": "2010, Bernard Edward Joseph Capes, At a Winter's Fire:",
          "text": "What! a score o' wiselings, and not one to hit oot the means and the way?\"",
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          "ref": "2012, Anton LaVey, Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right:",
          "text": "A wiseling keeps his real sentiments on this point to himself – guards them as his own life. The best mask for moral heresy is one of pretended sanctity.",
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        "One who pretends to be wise; a wiseacre."
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          "text": "This may well put to the blush those wiselings that show themselves fools in so speaking. ― Donne."
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          "text": "This is the book that makes fools of little wiselings.",
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          "text": "What! a score o' wiselings, and not one to hit oot the means and the way?\"",
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