unlearnedlyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈləːnᵻdli/, U.S. /ˌənˈlərnədli/ In an unlearned, ignorant, or unsophisticated manner.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adverb]
lewdlyc1380
ignorantlya1475
unlearnedly1533
simply1535
ineruditely1851
1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere viii. p. cccccxxiiii He shall speke very vnlernedly.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxvi. 631 It is fondly and vnlearnedly named in Englishe, Dittany.
1607 A. Willet Loidoromastix 54 Is it indeede vnlearnedly translated preacheth?
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 239 Some..unlearnedly and boldly scold about..unprofitable matters.
1689 W. Atwood Ld. Chief Justice Herbert's Acct. Examined 3 He very unlearnedly clogs the Definition of a Dispensing Power.
1715 ‘C. Dodd’ Secret Policy Eng. Society of Jesus i. 9 They very unlearnedly take it for only rayling.
1773 C. Crawford Diss. Phædon of Plato 104 I should..plainly, perhaps unlearnedly say, that nothing can render any thing beautiful.
1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 226 He..entered minutely and not unlearnedly into the ancient jurisprudence..of his country.
1870 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 5 Nov. We talk about vegetable life learnedly sometimes, and sometimes unlearnedly.
1924 Spectator 2 Aug. 165/2 He writes, clearly and unlearnedly, as a human being interested principally in life.
1957 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times-News 27 Oct. 4 a/2 People are talking about the subject, learnedly and unlearnedly.
2000 C. Fantazzi tr. J. L. Vives Educ. Christian Woman i. xi. 125 If you speak a lot, you are light-headed; unlearnedly, you are accounted ignorant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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