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unenˈlightened, ppl. a.
Also 7 unin-.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not illuminated or lit up.
1662Boyle Spring of Air ii. i. 22 For the Corpuscles of Light that permeate that space may be so numerous, as to leave no sensible part of it un-inlightned. 1789Phil. Trans. LXXX. 8 During the time..when evidently we were turned towards the unenlightened side. 1803Ibid. XCV. 152, I mentioned the probability that there existed..unenlightened stars (if I may be allowed the expression) that have ever remained in eternal darkness. 1833–4J. Phillips Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 715/2 The Phlegrean Fields,..unenlightened either by the rising or the setting sun.
fig.1774Trinket 165 Faces unenlightened with the smile of friendship.
2. Not mentally illuminated; uninstructed.
a1656Bp. Hall Rev. Unrevealed §8 A conceit, that would have sounded very strangely in the ears of our un⁓enlightened forefathers. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 638 The unenlightened Canadian takes pride in singing while tortured by his conquerors. 1797Mathias Purs. Lit. II. 5 note, Such unenlightened and ignorant men as myself. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 189 A strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 342 Imperfect, narrow-minded and unenlightened Christians.
b. Uninformed on some matter.
1829Scott Anne of G. xxxi, The old King was..still strangely unenlightened on the difference of her taste from his own.
3. Marked by lack of enlightenment.
1792A. Young Trav. France I. Pref. p. iv, Unenlightened practices exist, and want improvement. 1870Lowell Among my Books Ser. i. (1873) 148 Political or other doctrines which seem to us barbarous and unenlightened. |