unlessoned
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of unlessoned
Example Sentences
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From the legacies of an unlessoned mind, a woman’s heirs-male are not cut off in the Common Law of the generations of mankind.
From The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
"In sooth, señora, till you first taught me to dissemble I was unlessoned in the art."
From Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine by W. B. Gilbert
And then, with no premeditation at all, there came strange words from her, words clothing with unlessoned ease thoughts that certainly she had never formulated for Hugo Canning.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
This was a man named Harkly Young, a youngish, tobacco-chewing fellow of lowly origin and unlessoned manners, who was "assistant professor" of mathematics at a salary of one thousand dollars a year.
From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby
And yet--was the passing social moment a proper occasion to shout and preach at the unlessoned upon the grim subject of their moral opportunities in this so complex world?
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
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