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

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Example Sentences

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unlessoned

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 J. W. (John William) Mackail

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

"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

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

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 Maria Thompson Daviess

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