Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unlearned manner; so as to exhibit ignorance; ignorantly.
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- adverb In an
unlearned manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Remarkable structures, learnedly ascribed to the Druids; unlearnedly, to the dwarfs and fairies; and numerous throughout Western Britanny.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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Those priests act wrongly and unlearnedly, who, in the case of the dying, reserve the canonical penances for purgatory.
Disputation of Dr. Martin Luther Concerning Penitence and Indulgences 1909
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Now were any man unlearnedly learned (if I may use the expression) to contend that the apostle had here followed the rules of rhetoric, would not every Christian, learned or unlearned, laugh at him?
On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books Saint Augustine 1887
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Lyte, "is fondly and unlearnedly called in English Dittany.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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