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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

During the first part of the journey I was alone in the carriage, occupied with an unlearnt holiday task; but at Carlisle I acquired a fellow-traveller.

From Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences by Russell, George William Erskine

And experience of this kind will convince the subject of it that a Providence shapes our ends, even although the lesson it teaches may remain unlearnt.

From How to become like Christ by Dods, Marcus

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

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)

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