Definitions
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- n. Lack of learning; illiteracy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Lack of learning; illiteracy.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Want of learning; unlettered condition; illiteracy; ignorance.
Etymologies
Examples
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For take away order and rule, and what thing can any man make, eyther beautifull to the eye, or of commendable proportion and durable: then it must needes follow, that the cause of such inconuenient errors doth proceed from ignorance, and hath his beginning from illiterature.
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It will be said, however, that, whatever the learning of Spenser may have gleaned, the law-books of that age were impervious to the illiterature of Shakespeare.
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I could only read at eight years of age, but from that time until eleven I read a mingled and most preposterous mass of literature and illiterature.
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Giving an account of the author's birth and family -- The fondness of his mother -- His being put to an academy at sixteen by the advice of his friend -- His thoughts of his own illiterature
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Cambridge scholars laughed at his _gross illiterature_. "
Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich
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