ill-instructed

If so, we are but ill-instructed in the nature of the human passions, and are more influenced by verbal distinctions than by real differences.

An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals 2006

But even the uneducated and ill-instructed are allowed to raise people from the sacred font.

Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

It will sometimes be perceived that I am ill-instructed in this affair; but I can only tell what I know: and as for the rest, I give my conjectures.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Now, my experience is that it is not the language, however eloquent, the people fail to follow, but the ideas, and they fail to follow the ideas because they are ill-instructed in their religion.

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

Nor did these disorders appear surprising to those who were practically acquainted with the state of the country, overrun as it is in many places by vast iron-works, which have brought together a great and reckless population, and inhabited in all by a discontented and ill-instructed peasantry.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various

There can be no doubt that there is a widespread uncontrolled and ill-instructed use of contraceptives.

Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into various aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand 1927

[168] She asked an ill-instructed priest of the kind I mentioned to tell her in what way God dwelt within us: he was as ignorant on the subject as she had been before our Lord revealed to her the truth, and answered that the Almighty was only present in us by grace.

The Interior Castle or The Mansions 1921

Unfortunately, the writers were ill-instructed; a littera formata of the Church of Metz contains an error of addition, collections of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Gregory knew grammar and literature as well as any man of his time; it is a mere affectation on his part when he poses as ill-instructed; perhaps he hoped thereby to win praise for his learning.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Although married, they retain great influence over the illiterate but pious members of their flocks, who are attached to Christianity by tradition or patriotism, and whose ill-instructed religious sense shows itself mainly in ritual observances and superstitious practices.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913