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Webster 1828 Edition


Unlearnedly

UNLEARN'EDLY

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adv.
Ignorantly.

Definition 2024


unlearnedly

unlearnedly

English

Adverb

unlearnedly (comparative more unlearnedly, superlative most unlearnedly)

  1. In an unlearned manner.
    • 1878, N. Bailey., Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.:
      And those Affectators of Variety seem equally ridiculous, who, when they have spoken barbarously once, repeat the same Thing much more barbarously; and then over and over again much more unlearnedly.
    • 1892, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb:
      Better far for such victims had they, instead of aspiring to the vanities of a "classical education," sat, like Keats, unlearnedly at the feet of quaint Chapman, or Dryden, or even of Mr. Pope.