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unlearnedly

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Etymology

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From unlearned +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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unlearnedly (comparative more unlearnedly, superlative most unlearnedly)

  1. In an unlearned manner.
    • 1878, N. Bailey., Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.[1]:
      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.
    • 1892, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb[2]:
      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.