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unexˈperienced, ppl. a. [un-1 8 and 5 b.] 1. Not furnished with, or taught by, experience; not skilled or trained in this way.
1569T. Underdown Ovid's Invect. Ibis Pref. A vj b, If you wil bear with mine vnexperienced iudgemente. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 273 No man will commit his..bodie to an vnexperienced physitian. 1678Otway Friendship in F. iv. i, Her natural and unexperienc'd tenderness exceeded practis'd charms. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 175 ⁋10 Credulity is the common failing of unexperienced virtue. 1793Holcroft tr. Lavater's Physiog. i. 16 Shades scarcely discernible to an unexperienced eye. 1822Chisholm in Good Study Med. (1829) II. 213 Let the young and unexperienced practitioner guard himself against it. 1860A. L. Windsor Ethica iii. 146 An unexperienced hand might have expected [etc.]. b. Const. in.
1599Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 138 Our English Surgeons (for the most part) be vnexperienced in hurts that come by shot. 1620E. Blount Horæ Subs. 85 To be vnexperienced in the first, argues much disability for the latter. 1654tr. Martini's Conq. China 211 He quickly dispersed them, being wholy unexperienced in Military Discipline. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 27 My..child here, is unexperienced in the world. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. Oct. ii, Unexperienced as I am in the commerce of life. c. absol. (with the).
1622Peacham Compl. Gent. xvi. 200 If it be the common Law of Nature, that the learned should..instruct the ignorant, the experienced, the vnexperienced. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xix. 125 Whatever the unexperienc'd may imagine. 1742Johnson's Debates (1787) II. 100 By these arts I have known the young and unexperienced kept in suspence. 1810Crabbe Borough xxiii. 87 The unexperienced and the inexpert. 2. Not known or felt by experience.
1698Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 89 A new and altogether unexperienc'd State and way of Life. 1721Perry Daggenh. Breach 69 My Work was in a Method entirely new, and unexperienc'd by those Persons appointed to carry on the same in my Absence. 1756Monitor No. 27. I. 239 The towers..gave me an unexperienced delight, as I had never seen such a place before. 1844Disraeli Coningsby ix. v, There was..no unexperienced scene or sensation of life to distract his intelligence. Hence unexˈperiencedness.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes i. viii. 30 Whereat he vapoured extreamely, shaking his head at the fellows unexperiencednesse. 1727Bailey (vol. II) s.v., Unskilfulness. |