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illiterature|ɪˈlɪtərətjʊə(r)|
[f. illiterate, after literature. Cf. F. illittérature (Littré).]
Want of learning; illiterateness, illiteracy.
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 18 b, The cause..doth proceed from ignorance, and hath his beginning from illiterature. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 399 The Obstinacie and Illiterature of the shallow people. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 208 The more usual Causes of this Deprivation are..Illiterature, or Inability for the Discharge of that Sacred Function, Irreligion [etc.]. 1844S. R. Maitland Dark Ages 11 Such regal curiosities of literature, or illiterature, would have been highly interesting. 1866Pall Mall G. 31 May 4 It cannot efface his antecedents as a representative of illiterature. |