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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



... meant by states of life, and their changes, is very well known to the learned and the wise, but unknown to the unlearned and the simple; wherefore it may be expedient to premise somewhat on the subject. The state of a man's life is its quality; and as there are in every man two faculties which constitute his life, and which are called the ...
— The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love • Emanuel Swedenborg
... the unlearned's guide, Her simple followers evidently shows Sometimes what schoolmen scarcely can decide, Nor yet wise reason absolutely knows; In making trial of a murder wrought, If the vile actors of the heinous deed Near the dead body happily be brought, Oft 't hath been proved the breathless corse ...
— Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles - Idea, by Michael Drayton; Fidessa, by Bartholomew Griffin; Chloris, by William Smith • Michael Drayton, Bartholomew Griffin, and William Smith
... to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various
... tried all the pulp-making substances. This statement to the unlearned must seem curious, because in the very early times they were content with a single material and that did not even require to be first made into the form of pulp. When the supply of papyrus failed, it was rags which they substituted. By the simplest ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho
... beset by the dangers and temptations of an unsettled life; and if history may be believed, fell into many irregularities and even shamed their cloth by licentiousness. Into this disorder came the great and holy Benedict, the "learnedly ignorant, the wisely unlearned," the true organiser of Western Monachism. Under his wise "Rules" the Abbey of the VI century was transformed. It became "not only a place of prayer and meditation, but a refuge against barbarism in all its forms. And this home of books and knowledge had departments of all ...
— Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 • Elise Whitlock Rose


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