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Meanings of unlettered in English
Uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication.
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Examples for "ignorant"
Examples for "ignorant"
1
The defender is ignorant of the strength or direction of the attack.
2
They were the most ignorant of peoples; they became the most wise.
3
Of the natural history of the kangaroo we are still very ignorant.
4
The western world is ignorant of the strength of Jewry in Poland.
5
The shepherds in the Mysore country are very ignorant and very superstitious.
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There was so much as yet unlearned, even by the top people.
2
Only among the lowly, the unlearned, and the poor was English heard.
3
Then the unlearned learn, and not the wise, Cleinias, as you imagine.
4
In courts held by unlearned judges, also, English law-books were lightly considered.
5
I learned to eliminate all of that and unlearned all of that.
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The Hebraizer is conscientious but unenlightened; the Hellenizer is clear-headed but unscrupulous.
2
Why you want to interact with those unenlightened townsfolk, I'll never understand.
3
To the unenlightened reader this poem reveals no traits that are un-English.
4
IMMIGRANT, n. An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
5
But only an unthinking monster could leave the cinema unmoved and unenlightened.
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How blind he had been, how nescient of himself!
2
How nescient the poor little thing was!
3
But his French breeding triumphed and he remained, except for that one furtive twinkle, the conscientious valet, nescient and urbane.
Usage of unlettered in English
1
In the unlettered, untravelling past, the factor of tradition was altogether dominant.
2
The humblest of unlettered peasants can teach the highest genius something useful.
3
One epitaph, which the unlettered Muse must have dictated, is worth recording.
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Brother Lyford had continued to be a rude and unlettered Country Jake.
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They were, for the most part, plain, unlettered, and of little refinement.
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Why, he ain't as interesting as the unlettered side of an ore-sack.
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Annie will fall in love, please God, with no unlettered, soulless booby!
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And yet I found Colonel Ingram situated the same as the unlettered mechanics.
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The Salvation Army will reach a certain class with their mere unlettered zeal.
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To cross the ocean was no slight undertaking for unlettered and home-keeping people.
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Think of the subtleties to which they had to oppose their unlettered message.
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Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay.
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This woman like those of her sex and class was unlettered and superstitious.
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There is not among them an esquire, saving the unlettered magistrate.
15
Tells about a claim filed in 1978 by an unlettered, indigent Muslim woman.
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They were a dumb generation and an unlettered, those old Conquistadores.
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