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unlearnt

British  
/ ʌnˈlɜːnt, ʌnˈlɜːnd /

adjective

  1. denoting knowledge or skills innately present and therefore not learnt

  2. not learnt or taken notice of

    unlearnt lessons

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"The Fukushima accident is the result of unlearnt lessons of Chernobyl," Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov said.

From Reuters • Apr. 18, 2011

Some people have tried "the affectation of a book at noonday in gardens and sultry arbours," without finding their task of love to be unlearnt.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

One day I had got into a scrape for some piece of carelessness or other, some exercise unfinished, or lesson left unlearnt.

From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles

When he came back, if at all, it was, as a rule, grizzled and sunburnt, his native habits all unlearnt, and his native tongue more than half forgotten.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

In fact, the prudential morality, based on motives of health and reputation and success, is a thing that has often to be deliberately unlearnt at a later stage.

From The Child of the Dawn by Benson, Arthur Christopher