unlettered

In the novel, Newton takes up with a frumpy, unlettered Kentucky woman well into middle age.
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They were not designed via the epiphany of an unlettered Russian sergeant at a workbench, as fables would have it.
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St. Francis was unlettered, but his mind was poetic and imaginative, his nature gentle and humble.
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And mark you, this is no rude gathering of unlettered squires and rough men-at-arms.
Cynthia's Chauffeur|Louis Tracy

The "afflictive birch, cursed by unlettered idle youth," has other uses than that which the quotation would seem likely to imply.
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But it is unfortunately adduced to illustrate a position to which it can never apply, the vindication of an unlettered clergy.
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It was first announced, not to the great or wise, but to the poor and unlettered.
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British Dictionary definitions for unlettered

unlettered

/ (ʌnˈlɛtəd) /

adjective

uneducated; illiterate

not marked with lettersan unlettered tombstone

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unlettered

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