Meanings
comparative more unlearnedly · superlative most unlearnedly
- In an unlearned manner.
Better far for such victims had they, instead of aspiring to the vanities of a "classical education," sat, like Keats, unlearnedly at the feet of quaint Chapman, or Dryden, or even of Mr. Pope.
1892, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb1 more example
And those Affectators of Variety seem equally ridiculous, who, when they have spoken barbarously once, repeat the same Thing much more barbarously; and then over and over again much more unlearnedly.
1878, N. Bailey., Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.
Origin
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