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ineducation

American  
[in-ej-oo-key-shuhn] / ɪnˌɛdʒ ʊˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

  1. lack of education.

Etymology

Origin of ineducation

First recorded in 1795–1805; in- 3 + education

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Emiliani-Giudici thinks that the literary ineducation of Alfieri was the principal exterior cause of this prodigious development, that a more regular course of study would have restrained his creative genius, and, while smoothing the way before it, would have subjected it to methods and robbed it of originality of feeling and conception.

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