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- uncountableLack of education; ignorance.
But most school magazines I have seen are devastating examples of uneducation.
1964, New Society, volume 4, page 252 more examples
Nearly six years of age was Manders now, but he still knew very well the gross folly of being much disturbed by such irrational things as death and the hodge-podge of mortal uneducation.
1899, Elwyn Alfred Barron, Manders: A Tale of Paris, page 8The sight of a sheepskin coat from Zakopane led me to a discussion of Polish peasant industries, and the high percentage of artistic achievement in spite of wretched poverty and uneducation.
1911, Alfred Richard Orage, Arthur Moore, The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Art
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