unlessoned

American  

[uhn-les-uhnd] / ʌnˈlɛs ənd /

adjective

1. not educated or trained.

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Etymology

Origin of unlessoned

First recorded in 1540–50; un- ¹ + lesson + -ed ³

Example Sentences

My training has been all to one end—useless now—and I'm all unlessoned and unlearned in the real things of life.

From The Road to Providence by Daviess, Maria Thompson

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 Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson

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 Crosby, Raymond Moreau

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 Harrison, Henry Sydnor

For once before, for Zeus and his Alcmena, thou wentest contrary; thou art not unlessoned in running backward.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by Mackail, J. W. (John William)