Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not made formal; unreduced to forms.
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- adjective That has not been
formalized .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Graduate education and the rest of lifelong unformalized education is not like K-12; it is not age-segregated.
Seriously? JLK 2009
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The objection to traditional grammar was not that it postulated real rules that people really followed, but rather that it was incomplete and unformalized.
Chomsky's Revolution: An Exchange Chomsky, Noam 2002
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He imagined an unformalized inward revelation which should reveal new truths to those who passionately desired Truth above all things.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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It was pleasant also to tell him some things he did not know -- he listened so kindly, so teachably; unformalized by scruples lest so to bend his bright handsome head, to gather a woman's rather obscure and stammering explanation, should imperil the dignity of his manhood.
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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It was pleasant also to tell him some things he did not know — he listened so kindly, so teachably; unformalized by scruples lest so to bend his bright handsome head, to gather a woman’s rather obscure and stammering explanation, should imperil the dignity of his manhood.
Villette 2003
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