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Unlearned   Listen
verb
Unlearn  v. t.  (past & past part. unlearned; pres. part. unlearning)  
1.
To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of. "I had learned nothing right; I had to unlearn everything."
2.
To fail to learn. (Obs.)


adjective
Unlearned  adj.  
1.
Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.
2.
Not gained by study; not known.
3.
Not exhibiting learning; as, unlearned verses.





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"Unlearned" Quotes from Famous Books



... triumphal statues adorn your funeral procession; and may no matron appear in public abounding with richer pearls. What follows, because the Stoic treatises sometimes love to be on silken pillows? Are unlearned constitutions the less robust? Or are their limbs less stout? But for you to raise an appetite, in a stomach that is nice, it is necessary that you exert ...
— The Works of Horace • Horace
... Piety adorned her old minister's doctrine of the holy heart that he was always preaching about, till she shared her soft and holy heart with her son, as his father had shared his clear and deep, if too unlearned, head. ...
— Bunyan Characters - Third Series - The Holy War • Alexander Whyte
... said Charles, "it is a cruel thing to say to the unlearned and the multitude, 'Believe, and you are at once saved; do not wait for fruits, rejoice at once,' and neither to accompany this announcement by any clear description of what faith is, nor to secure them by previous religious training ...
— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman
... a bias of our own, the Anglo-Saxon prejudice traditional to the race. And if the curious frame of mind that many reserve for fiction be analyzed and blame distributed, there will be a multitude of readers, learned and unlearned, proud and humble, critical and uncritical, who must admit their share. Nevertheless, the righteous wrath inspired by the situation shall not draw us into that dangerous and humorless thing, a general indictment. There are ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby
... own discovery, but is grateful to any who can teach him. He believes that unwitting deceivers are more culpable than deliberate tricksters. Hippias finds it impossible to agree with him, whereupon Socrates says that things are for ever baffling him by their changeability; it is pardonable that unlearned men like himself should err; when really wise people like Hippias wander in thought, it is monstrous that they are unable to settle the doubts of all who ...
— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb


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