unlearnt
Britishadjective
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denoting knowledge or skills innately present and therefore not learnt
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not learnt or taken notice of
unlearnt lessons
Example Sentences
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"The Fukushima accident is the result of unlearnt lessons of Chernobyl," Rosatom spokesman Sergei Novikov said.
From Reuters • Apr. 18, 2011
He never unlearnt the habit of harsh reprobation which his Evangelical friends had encouraged.
From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
But if from him thou learnest The lore of falsehood, it were best unlearnt; Or if the instruction comes of thine own thought, Such would-be kindness doth not prove thee kind.
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
Some people have tried "the affectation of a book at noonday in gardens and sultry arbours," without finding their task of love to be unlearnt.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
Never a lesson unlearnt, nor a duty undone, and his eager eyes looked forward to a life of truth and obedience.
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
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