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lack-learning

lack-learning adjective: ignorant.

Adjective

lack-learning (comparative more lack-learning, superlative most lack-learning)

  1. (obsolete) Ignorant
    • In those lack-learning times, and in barbarized Italy, began that vulgar and easie kind of Poesie which is now in vse throughout most parts of Christendome, which we abusiuely call Rime, and Meeter, of Rithmus and Metrum, of which I will now discourse.1602, Thomas Campion, “The first Chapter, intreating of numbers in generall.”, in Observations in the Art of English Poesie
    • It was therefore an unconſtitutional prohibition, which was inſerted in the king's writs, for the parliament holden at Coventry, 6 Hen. IV, that no apprentice or other man of the law ſhould be elected a knight of the ſhire therein: in return for which, our law books and hiſtorians have branded this...1765, Sir William Blackstone, “Of the Parliament”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, 3rd edition, volume 1, published 1768, page 176
    Synonyms:
    ignorant

Noun

lack-learning (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Ignorance
    • So few persons among the laity were acquainted with the art of writing, that the science itself acquired the name of 'clergy.' The term ' clerk' became equivalent to 'penman;' and our common nomenclature still bears testimony to the lack-learning of ancient times.1837, Sir Francis Palgrave, “The Refectory”, in The Merchant and the Friar, page 4

Synonyms of lack-learning

Forms of lack-learning

comparativemore lack-learning
superlativemost lack-learning

Origin of lack-learning

From lack + learning.

Questions about lack-learning

What does lack-learning mean?
Lack-learning means ignorant.
What part of speech is lack-learning?
Lack-learning can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near lack-learning in the dictionary

  1. lack-grace
  2. lack-graces
  3. lack-latin
  4. lack-latins
  5. lack-laughter
  6. lack-learning
  7. lack-life
  8. lack-linen
  9. lack-looks
  10. lack-love
  11. lack-loves

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