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
But it is far otherwise with the masters and mistresses of creation; for 'Were man to live coeval with the sun, The patriarch pupil should be learning still, And dying, leave his lessons half unlearnt.'
From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
That we misunderstand the gift of tongues, and that it did not mean the power of speaking foreign languages unlearnt, I am strongly persuaded.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
The Bourbons of Naples were ascertained to have learnt nothing and unlearnt nothing; perfidy alone could be expected from them.
From Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
Never a lesson unlearnt, nor a duty undone, and his eager eyes looked forward to a life of truth and obedience.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
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