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unlearnedly en · ADV

Etymology

From unlearned + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an unlearned manner.
   • Better far for such victims had they, instead of aspiring to the vanities of a "classical education," sat, like Keats, unlearnedly at the feet of quaint Chapman, or Dryden, or even of Mr. Pope. 1892, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb:
   • And those Affectators of Variety seem equally ridiculous, who, when they have spoken barbarously once, repeat the same Thing much more barbarously; and then over and over again much more unlearnedly. 1878, N. Bailey., Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.:

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