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illiterate

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1. illiterate - Noun

2. illiterate - Adjective

3. illiterate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler

Images are books for the illiterate and silent heralds of the honor of the saints, teaching those who see with a soundless voice and sanctifying the sight. John of Damascus

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. Aleister Crowley

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own. Anselm of Canterbury

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An illiterate king is a crowned ass. English Proverb

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