unletteredadj.n.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈlɛtəd/, U.S.

/ˌənˈlɛdərd/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and lettered adj. and n.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: un- prefix¹, lettered adj.

Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + lettered adj., originally after classical Latin illitterātus illiterate adj.Compare Middle Dutch ongelettert (Dutch ongeletterd).

A. adj.

a. Of a person: unable to read and write, illiterate. Also: uneducated; unlearned, poorly read.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [adjective]

unletteredc1390

unliterate1548

illiterate1556

abecedary1589

letterless1605

illiterated1610

illitered1612

clerkless1653

analphabet1654

analphabetical1676

unalphabeted1799

non-reading1848

analphabetic1876

unalphabetic1883

c1390 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 278 (MED) Anoþur man vnlettred [c1440 Thornton unletterede] mai not so redili haue at his hand holy writ & doctors sawes.

c1410 tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 181 Stigand..as almost al oþer bisshoppes þat tyme in Engelond..was unlettred [?a1475 anon. tr. not instructe in connynge; L. illitteratus], but ful myghty in money.

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 468 When þe abbott Pambo was vnletterd, he went vnto a man þat was letterd [etc.].

1549 J. Leland Laboryouse Journey sig. E. iiij The Italianes..counte..all other nacyons to be barbarouse & vnlettered, savinge their owne.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 190 [He] is a prowd man, if he contemne expert artisans,..howsoeuer Vnlectured in Schooles, or Vnlettered in bookes.

1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 156 As children or unlettered persons, when they looke on bookes, know not the power of the letter.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 36 Such a lost construction, as no man either letter'd or unletter'd will be able to piece up.

1671 E. Wettenhall Two Disc. Christian Piety & Devotion ii. iii. 367 A parcel of stupid, pusillanimous, unlettered, mechanick, and contemptible men.

1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 62 Curs'd by unletter'd, idle Youth.

1755 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 5) Postcr. Alterations are still in Pursuance of my first Design, To set down cheap, and safe..Medicines..easy to be applied by plain, unlettered Men.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 213 As alphabets in ivory employ..the yet unletter'd boy.

1817 T. Chalmers Evid. Christian Revel. ii. 86 The mind of an ordinary and unlettered peasant.

1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxv. 331 Sturdy but unlettered mechanics.

1929 Travel Jan. 41/2 Satire, too, is not unknown to these wise, brown, unlettered child-people around me.

1969 R. D. Pharr Bk. of Numbers (1970) xii. 137 He sold hundreds of these books to the unlettered masses at a profit.

2010 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 2 Dec. 9 To U.K. residents of a certain stripe, we Americans will always be the bumptious cousins and the amusingly unlettered colonials.

b. Characterized by or expressive of a lack of education or erudition; unlearned, unsophisticated.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > of things

simplec1443

unlettered?1580

illiterate1598

untutored1611

illitered1612

?1580 I. K. in tr. P. M. Vermigli Briefe Treat. conc. Vse & Abuse Dauncing Ep. Ded. sig. A.ii^v I forbeare any farther to molest you with my vnlettered lynes.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 18 After his..vnpolished, vneducated,..or rather vnlettered ..fashion.

?1634 W. Oughtred To Eng. Gentrie sig. D2^v Those tragicall exclamations, wherewith his unlettered and unmannerly Pamphlet is stuffed.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 94 Books..give a more universal Insight into Things, than can be learned from unlettered Observation.

1717 R. Blackmore Ess. Several Subj. II. 4 During these Primitive unletter'd Times, Men every where acknowledg'd the Existence of a supream Divine Being.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music iv. 36 Savages..in their present unlettered State of Ignorance and Simplicity.

1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 186 They were learned men in an unlettered age.

a1864 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) I. 142 His conversation has much strong, unlettered sense.

1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man ii. iii. 251 It is nonsense to say that the Christian faith appeared in a simple age; in the sense of an unlettered and gullible age.

1963 Times 14 Feb. 15/3 Were their beliefs those of absurd and unlettered superstition?

2008 M. Gorji John Clare & Place of Poetry ii. 32 The poem speaks of the value of an unlettered style.

2. Unmarked with letters; not containing or bearing writing.In quot. 1633: not expressed in writing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [adjective] > not written or recorded

unwritten1362

unsetc1445

unpenned1587

unlettered1633

illiterate1645

unwrit1656

nonscript1657

imperscriptible1791

society > communication > writing > state of having been written > [adjective] > inscribed (of writing) > not written or inscribed upon

inscriptionless1654

uninscribed1713

unlettered1782

unengraven1834

1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 85 in Purple Island Unletter'd Word, which never eare could heare.

1733 W. Cheselden Osteographia viii Fifty six folio plates of human osteography, one set unlettered to shew them in their full beauty.

1782 T. Maude Verbeia 37 (note) This unlettered tomb is in a mutilated state.

1835 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 10 Feb. Fame will write his name On Time's unlettered page.

1875 J. Sabin Catal. Bks., Manuscripts & Engravings W. Menzies 6 A Fine Unlettered India Proof Portrait of Mr. Allan inserted.

1903 New Internat. Encycl. XIV. 566/2 Proofs made from the unlettered plate are called generally proofs before the letter.

1952 A. W. Lewis Basic Bookbinding (1957) v. 48 The first section containing the title page, contents, etc., being unlettered.

2015 C. Murray in D. Greene & K. Roddy G. Morrison & Superhero Renaissance i. 27 The unlettered page has aliens bursting into a room.

B. n.

An illiterate or uneducated person (now rare). With the and plural agreement: illiterate or uneducated people as a class.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [noun] > illiterate person

unlettered1449

illiterate1628

non-reader1689

letterless1760

analphabetic1880

analphabet1881

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [noun] > illiterate person > collectively

unlettered1449

illiterati1788

unliterate1893

J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 563 (MED) This matere ys obscure and to onletterryd noght delectabyl.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. vii. f. clxxxiii Whiche versis may thus to vnletteryd be Englysshed.

1579 J. Bell tr. M. Luther Treat. Libertie Christian sig. D^v I may discouer a more easie waye to the vnlettered to wade herein.

1614 W. Kinsman & E. Kinsman tr. A. de Villegas Lives of Saints 237 He painted some Images, wherwith he satisfied the simple, and the vnlettered.

1670 W. Annand Pater Noster v. v. 328 The Translater spake..to the understanding of the unletter'd.

1703 P. Paxton Civil Polity iv. 131 They had acquired some Perfections that were not to be attained by the unlettered.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 180. ⁋2 The unlettered and unenlightened.

1812 G. Chalmers Hist. View Domest. Econ. Great Brit. & Ireland Pref. 14 That the learned are sometimes too confident, and the unlettered always too credulous.

1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) viii. 273 Sacred pictures..are the Bibles of the unlettered.

1902 Acad. & Lit. 22 Mar. 315/1 The unlettered often confess with an unnecessary shame that they read novels ‘only for the plot’.

1954 Times of India 12 Dec. 6/6 For the unlettered there is always the better method of listening to discourses.

1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 23 Aug. a20 The unlettereds are scapegoating The Star again.

2008 J. F. Hultin Ethics Obscene Speech in Early Christianity & its Environment ii. 72 Only the unlettered would fail to grasp the conventions of poetry.

Derivatives

unˈletteredly adv.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [adverb]

unletteredly1440

illiterately1684

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 366 On-letterydly, illiterate.

1916 J. Hazelrigg Sun Bk. viii. 92 Our creeds deal unletteredly and ungenerously with fundamental edicta.

a1996 H. Brodkey Sea Battles on Dry Land (1999) 444 We are too unlettered and too unletteredly giddy for Nietzschean gaiety.

unˈletteredness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [noun]

illiterature1592

illiterateness1631

unletteredness1653

illiteracy1660

analphabetism1891

1653 E. Waterhouse Humble Apol. Learning 120 Ignorance and unletterednesse ill becomes any man who bears the Image of God.

1890 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. p. xxiii The entire unletteredness of the community.

2008 K. Giglio in M. E. Lamb & K. Bamford Oral Trad. & Gender in Early Mod. Lit. Texts ii. 20 The unletteredness of the priest is described not only as a fault, but as an outright sin.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	unlettered
释义	unletteredadj.n. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈlɛtəd/, U.S. /ˌənˈlɛdərd/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and lettered adj. and n. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: un- prefix¹, lettered adj. Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + lettered adj., originally after classical Latin illitterātus illiterate adj.Compare Middle Dutch ongelettert (Dutch ongeletterd). A. adj. 1. a. Of a person: unable to read and write, illiterate. Also: uneducated; unlearned, poorly read. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [adjective] unletteredc1390 unliterate1548 illiterate1556 abecedary1589 letterless1605 illiterated1610 illitered1612 clerkless1653 analphabet1654 analphabetical1676 unalphabeted1799 non-reading1848 analphabetic1876 unalphabetic1883 c1390 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Vernon) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1895) I. 278 (MED) Anoþur man vnlettred [c1440 Thornton unletterede] mai not so redili haue at his hand holy writ & doctors sawes. c1410 tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 181 Stigand..as almost al oþer bisshoppes þat tyme in Engelond..was unlettred [?a1475 anon. tr. not instructe in connynge; L. illitteratus], but ful myghty in money. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 468 When þe abbott Pambo was vnletterd, he went vnto a man þat was letterd [etc.]. 1549 J. Leland Laboryouse Journey sig. E. iiij The Italianes..counte..all other nacyons to be barbarouse & vnlettered, savinge their owne. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 190 [He] is a prowd man, if he contemne expert artisans,..howsoeuer Vnlectured in Schooles, or Vnlettered in bookes. 1624 T. Gataker Discuss. Transubstant. 156 As children or unlettered persons, when they looke on bookes, know not the power of the letter. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 36 Such a lost construction, as no man either letter'd or unletter'd will be able to piece up. 1671 E. Wettenhall Two Disc. Christian Piety & Devotion ii. iii. 367 A parcel of stupid, pusillanimous, unlettered, mechanick, and contemptible men. 1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 62 Curs'd by unletter'd, idle Youth. 1755 J. Wesley Primitive Physick (ed. 5) Postcr. Alterations are still in Pursuance of my first Design, To set down cheap, and safe..Medicines..easy to be applied by plain, unlettered Men. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 213 As alphabets in ivory employ..the yet unletter'd boy. 1817 T. Chalmers Evid. Christian Revel. ii. 86 The mind of an ordinary and unlettered peasant. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxv. 331 Sturdy but unlettered mechanics. 1929 Travel Jan. 41/2 Satire, too, is not unknown to these wise, brown, unlettered child-people around me. 1969 R. D. Pharr Bk. of Numbers (1970) xii. 137 He sold hundreds of these books to the unlettered masses at a profit. 2010 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 2 Dec. 9 To U.K. residents of a certain stripe, we Americans will always be the bumptious cousins and the amusingly unlettered colonials. b. Characterized by or expressive of a lack of education or erudition; unlearned, unsophisticated. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > of things simplec1443 unlettered?1580 illiterate1598 untutored1611 illitered1612 ?1580 I. K. in tr. P. M. Vermigli Briefe Treat. conc. Vse & Abuse Dauncing Ep. Ded. sig. A.ii^v I forbeare any farther to molest you with my vnlettered lynes. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 18 After his..vnpolished, vneducated,..or rather vnlettered ..fashion. View more context for this quotation ?1634 W. Oughtred To Eng. Gentrie sig. D2^v Those tragicall exclamations, wherewith his unlettered and unmannerly Pamphlet is stuffed. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 94 Books..give a more universal Insight into Things, than can be learned from unlettered Observation. 1717 R. Blackmore Ess. Several Subj. II. 4 During these Primitive unletter'd Times, Men every where acknowledg'd the Existence of a supream Divine Being. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music iv. 36 Savages..in their present unlettered State of Ignorance and Simplicity. 1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 186 They were learned men in an unlettered age. a1864 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) I. 142 His conversation has much strong, unlettered sense. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man ii. iii. 251 It is nonsense to say that the Christian faith appeared in a simple age; in the sense of an unlettered and gullible age. 1963 Times 14 Feb. 15/3 Were their beliefs those of absurd and unlettered superstition? 2008 M. Gorji John Clare & Place of Poetry ii. 32 The poem speaks of the value of an unlettered style. 2. Unmarked with letters; not containing or bearing writing.In quot. 1633: not expressed in writing. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [adjective] > not written or recorded unwritten1362 unsetc1445 unpenned1587 unlettered1633 illiterate1645 unwrit1656 nonscript1657 imperscriptible1791 society > communication > writing > state of having been written > [adjective] > inscribed (of writing) > not written or inscribed upon inscriptionless1654 uninscribed1713 unlettered1782 unengraven1834 1633 P. Fletcher Poeticall Misc. 85 in Purple Island Unletter'd Word, which never eare could heare. 1733 W. Cheselden Osteographia viii Fifty six folio plates of human osteography, one set unlettered to shew them in their full beauty. 1782 T. Maude Verbeia 37 (note) This unlettered tomb is in a mutilated state. 1835 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 10 Feb. Fame will write his name On Time's unlettered page. 1875 J. Sabin Catal. Bks., Manuscripts & Engravings W. Menzies 6 A Fine Unlettered India Proof Portrait of Mr. Allan inserted. 1903 New Internat. Encycl. XIV. 566/2 Proofs made from the unlettered plate are called generally proofs before the letter. 1952 A. W. Lewis Basic Bookbinding (1957) v. 48 The first section containing the title page, contents, etc., being unlettered. 2015 C. Murray in D. Greene & K. Roddy G. Morrison & Superhero Renaissance i. 27 The unlettered page has aliens bursting into a room. B. n. An illiterate or uneducated person (now rare). With the and plural agreement: illiterate or uneducated people as a class. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [noun] > illiterate person unlettered1449 illiterate1628 non-reader1689 letterless1760 analphabetic1880 analphabet1881 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [noun] > illiterate person > collectively unlettered1449 illiterati1788 unliterate1893 J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 563 (MED) This matere ys obscure and to onletterryd noght delectabyl. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. vii. f. clxxxiii Whiche versis may thus to vnletteryd be Englysshed. 1579 J. Bell tr. M. Luther Treat. Libertie Christian sig. D^v I may discouer a more easie waye to the vnlettered to wade herein. 1614 W. Kinsman & E. Kinsman tr. A. de Villegas Lives of Saints 237 He painted some Images, wherwith he satisfied the simple, and the vnlettered. 1670 W. Annand Pater Noster v. v. 328 The Translater spake..to the understanding of the unletter'd. 1703 P. Paxton Civil Polity iv. 131 They had acquired some Perfections that were not to be attained by the unlettered. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 180. ⁋2 The unlettered and unenlightened. 1812 G. Chalmers Hist. View Domest. Econ. Great Brit. & Ireland Pref. 14 That the learned are sometimes too confident, and the unlettered always too credulous. 1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) viii. 273 Sacred pictures..are the Bibles of the unlettered. 1902 Acad. & Lit. 22 Mar. 315/1 The unlettered often confess with an unnecessary shame that they read novels ‘only for the plot’. 1954 Times of India 12 Dec. 6/6 For the unlettered there is always the better method of listening to discourses. 1987 Toronto Star (Nexis) 23 Aug. a20 The unlettereds are scapegoating The Star again. 2008 J. F. Hultin Ethics Obscene Speech in Early Christianity & its Environment ii. 72 Only the unlettered would fail to grasp the conventions of poetry. Derivatives unˈletteredly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [adverb] unletteredly1440 illiterately1684 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 366 On-letterydly, illiterate. 1916 J. Hazelrigg Sun Bk. viii. 92 Our creeds deal unletteredly and ungenerously with fundamental edicta. a1996 H. Brodkey Sea Battles on Dry Land (1999) 444 We are too unlettered and too unletteredly giddy for Nietzschean gaiety. unˈletteredness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [noun] illiterature1592 illiterateness1631 unletteredness1653 illiteracy1660 analphabetism1891 1653 E. Waterhouse Humble Apol. Learning 120 Ignorance and unletterednesse ill becomes any man who bears the Image of God. 1890 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. p. xxiii The entire unletteredness of the community. 2008 K. Giglio in M. E. Lamb & K. Bamford Oral Trad. & Gender in Early Mod. Lit. Texts ii. 20 The unletteredness of the priest is described not only as a fault, but as an outright sin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1390
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