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单词 non-proficient
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non-proficientn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, proficient n.
Etymology: < non- prefix + proficient n. (although this is first attested slightly later).
Obsolete.
A person who fails to make progress or improve.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > failure to progress > one who fails to make progress
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1579–80 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 99 As if..we were born to be the only Nonproficients and Nihilagents of the world.
1608 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Plaine Expos. Prov. 24 Reproofe of Non-proficients which are taught much and learne little.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xiii. 47) Christ is an incessant teacher: learn then, for shame, lest he turn us off for non-proficients.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. ix. sig. Dd7 If a Sermon leave us Devouter than it found us..we may be Despondents, but are not altogether Non-proficients.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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