Adjective : a preliterate culture. From Dictionary.com.
The 1949 edition of the Funk and Wagnall New Standard Dictionary lists 'preliterate' only. From Wordnik.com. [A Silent World] Reference
Neither 'preliterate' nor 'preliteracy' are registered in the 1942 Chicago Dictionary of American English. From Wordnik.com. [A Silent World] Reference
In the end I found both 'preliterate' and 'preliteracy' in the 1961 edition of Webster's New International Dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [A Silent World] Reference
She learned the world, she writes, through her senses, through a "preliterate" understanding of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference
It has its roots in the preliterate cultures of my own era. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
Primitive, indigenous, preliterate members of tribes care for their own. From Wordnik.com. [Death by vomiting on ER Floor; Murder Weapon: Denial of Universal Health Insurance] Reference
They signify, he says, a preliterate world view that endowed all living creatures with souls. From Wordnik.com. [The Noble Scavenger on The Living-Room Couch] Reference
Over the years, I've become enamored with the way indigenous, preliterate tribal cultures lived. From Wordnik.com. [Politics and Positive Psychology; Reconciling and Integrating Them] Reference
In 11,000 BC, all societies everywhere were bands of preliterate hunter-gatherers with stone tools. From Wordnik.com. ['Guns, Germs, and Steel'] Reference
Most of their parents have not become citizens and I'm thinking especially of people from preliterate societies. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Raleigh Bailey, December 6, 2000. Interview K-0270. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
"We're talking about preliterate mythologies of Arabs," says Donald Whitcomb, a University of Chicago archeologist. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Atlantis Of The Sands'] Reference
This makes me laugh, since the thousands of noble Trojans and Argives battling here are all as preliterate as two-year-olds. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
“The preliterate, meet the postliterate,” continued Savi, opening her hand as if introducing Odysseus to the other four. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
Lift the frame, and you reveal a capital letter: It ' s simple and elegant, and makes perfect sense for preliterate persons. From Wordnik.com. [After Uplift, Ka-Chow!] Reference
In preliterate and in preindustrial urban societies, socially successful individuals commonly had larger than average families. From Wordnik.com. [Who Wants More Kids?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Appearing in preliterate, indigenous societies, the shaman is another representative type proficient in transcendent experience. From Wordnik.com. [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference
Second-graders — at last learning to read with comprehension and fluency — regressed to a preliterate, strictly visual state of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Hand]
My education was running in reverse as my mind shed its outermost layer of signs and symbols and shrank back to its mute, preliterate core. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Meritocracy] Reference
It -- the Muslims would say the prophet but it was revealed to the prophet Muhammad who spoke these words, as was common in a preliterate society. From Wordnik.com. [Islam: A Short History] Reference
Moreover, this method does not depend on access to prerecorded texts, which makes it an ideal tool for writing histories of preliterate societies. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
Spencer led some people to believe that preliterate tribes were really primitive, as children or eggs prior to adults or freely living individuals. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
This explains the mystery of why preliterate and acoustic peoples appear to us to be so deeply satisfied with such shallow resources and means of existence. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Work Ethic] Reference
The profoundly intelligent sympathy which informs Tristes Tropiques makes all other memoirs about life among preliterate peoples seem ill-at-ease, defensive, provincial. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of our Time] Reference
Postliterate is markedly different from preliterate. From Wordnik.com. [MachineMachine (formerly 'The Huge Entity')] Reference
About one-third of the population is preliterate when it comes to their finances. From Wordnik.com. [NCPA | Daily Policy Digest] Reference
"In preliterate societies" whose environment most closely resembles that of our ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
In traditional, preliterate societies, children spent most of their waking hours in the local playgroup. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The only thing obscene is Ford getting a bailout so it can pay a preliterate 65k per year for sweeping a floor. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
But lest we think that they were more stable in preindustrial or preliterate times, the truth is they probably changed even more drastically from generation to generation. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily News - News] Reference
It was therefore decided to examine the relationship between fluency at printing the alphabet in preliterate children, and their subsequent success in learning to read well. From Wordnik.com. [Region 19 BOE Gazette] Reference
They’re as perfectly postliterate as you and your comrades were preliterate.”. From Wordnik.com. [Ilium]
A preliterate society and a literate one and likewise I am convinced that there is a comparable divide between pre-computer literate individuals and computer competent ones. From Wordnik.com. [Building Up Or Dumbing Down?: A Keynote Address to the Communities Networking/Networking Communities Conference] Reference
These creatures are preliterate. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-02] Reference
The preliterate calendar makers of the 1990s?. From Wordnik.com. [funny trash talking; Majestico update; 4chan meme] Reference
You don't want some other encounter of literate/centralized/theological and preliterate/distributed/animist cultures. From Wordnik.com. [Glutton For Punishment] Reference
"preliterate". From Wordnik.com. [Ace of Spades HQ] Reference
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