He frequently speaks of himself as "unlearned," and in the technical sense of the word he was unlearned. From Wordnik.com. [Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries] Reference
Now if our users have "unlearned" expecting undo and redo to work, they'll be able to idenitfy these buttons. From Wordnik.com. [Think Vitamin] Reference
Everything they had learned about the handling of guns had to be "unlearned" and a system entirely different substituted for it. From Wordnik.com. [History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division] Reference
Page 268, word "I" inserted into text (I am unlearned). From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Old truths have been relearned; untruths have been unlearned. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Considerable parts of this book have been written for the unlearned. From Wordnik.com. [A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication] Reference
"It's a fact that fears once learned are never unlearned," Dodman said. From Wordnik.com. [Bomb-Sniffing Dog Gina Comes Home From Iraq Traumatized, Suffering From PTSD] Reference
And avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strifes. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 62: 2 Timothy The Challoner Revision] Reference
Maybe I've unlearned something that society has been teaching me my whole life. From Wordnik.com. [Badface Investigates - Being Naked] Reference
This is a word that is a pitfall to the most of us whether learned or unlearned. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
The reading is doubtful, but the meaning seems to be: "simple and unlearned men". From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
The room itself was indicative of the youthful and unlearned character of its owner. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Why should imprudent unlearned souls trouble that which is both learned, and prudent?. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
How very unpleasant is wisdom to the unlearned, and the unwise will not continue with her. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Draw near to me, ye unlearned, and gather yourselves together into the hours of discipline. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Her South had brought the bloom forth early, and she was unprepared and unlearned in its demands. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
"B.t with this difference," once exclaimed Andrew B. Dickinson, an unlearned but brilliant Steuben. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
But I know from experience that doors of opportunity do close in the face of a boy who is unlearned. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
An instinct is at once an unlearned mechanism for making a response and an unlearned tendency to make it. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
French, the English language, undeveloped and unstandardized, could make its appeal only to the unlearned. From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
Neither the boy nor the girl had yet unlearned how to talk to trees and other agreeable plants and animals. From Wordnik.com. [Eden, Suburbs] Reference
And they cast lots by their courses, the elder equally with the younger, the learned and the unlearned together. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
And what a matter of either grief or wonder is this, if he that is unlearned, do the deeds of one that is unlearned?. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
I beg the reader, learned or unlearned, to put aside prepossessions, and to look at things as they are in this field. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Indeed, the very fact that he was unlearned was rightly supposed to increase the miraculous nature of his revelations. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Every man in the Empire, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, has a profound respect for what he calls Tien-Li, or Divine. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
Else, if thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that holdeth the place of the unlearned say, Amen, to thy blessing?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
The unlearned, not knowing that you are then blessing, will not be qualified to join with you by saying Amen to your blessing. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not or an unlearned person, he is convinced of all: he is judged of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 53: 1 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
There is implied in it that there are two classes of people, not the cultured and the uncultured, not the learned and the unlearned. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
He should become skilled in manual arts; he should learn something that he has left unlearned: how to labor correctly and profitably. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
Its size and general make-up are such as to render this beautiful little book a "companion for the learned as well as for the unlearned.". From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
They are, I believe, sometimes spoken slightingly of by men of learning; I, however, as an unlearned man, think them particularly useful. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference
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