unlessoned

[ uhn-les-uhnd ]

adjective

1. not educated or trained.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unlessoned¹

First recorded in 1540–50; un- ¹ + lesson + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Unlessoned, un-les′nd, adj. not instructed, not taught.

From Project Gutenberg

They are as ready to die for love as Juliet was, and along with this abandon they have the coolness, the independence, the practical faculty, which belong to their time and race, but which were not a part of woman’s nature in the age that produced Shakspere’s “unlessoned girl.”

From Project Gutenberg

I try to portray life as I see and have seen it; and because I have seen so much that is brutal and ruthless, vulgar and unlessoned and because I believe that all aspects of human life belong in serious novels, my books are called brutal and ruthless.

From Time Magazine Archive

Poverty began to teach the unlessoned delver in the soil the thrift which he needed; but he ended his first twelve months with barely enough to eat, and nothing paid on his land or his mule.

From Project Gutenberg

"In sooth, señora, till you first taught me to dissemble I was unlessoned in the art."

From Project Gutenberg