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unlessoned

American  
[uhn-les-uhnd] / ʌnˈlɛs ənd /

adjective

  1. not educated or trained.


Etymology

Origin of unlessoned

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

Example Sentences

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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 Harrison, Henry Sydnor

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

"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 Gilbert, W. B.

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)

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

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