unlearnt
Britishadjective
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denoting knowledge or skills innately present and therefore not learnt
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not learnt or taken notice of
unlearnt lessons
Example Sentences
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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
He never unlearnt the habit of harsh reprobation which his Evangelical friends had encouraged.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
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
Everything new means something to be unlearnt, and your downright man will respect the ancient dogmas and accuse the new evangelist of failing in the sensus recti.
From Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Its experiences, its many lessons and duties, are all unlearnt and you would pass to the spirit world immatured.
From Within the Temple of Isis by Wagner, Belle M.
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