Unlettered Definition

Unlettered Sentence Examples

• Henry received a good education, of which in later life he was proud; he is credited with the saying that an unlettered king is only a crowned ass.

• With the exception of the peshwas, its chiefs were little more than freebooting warriors, for the most part rude, violent and' unlettered.

• It is, however, by no means easy to determine their original tenets, as in the 13th and 14th centuries they were a body of obscure and unlettered peasants, hiding themselves in a corner, while in the 16th century they were absorbed into the general movement of the Reformation.

• They were not entirely unlettered; for the use of runes dates back considerably earlier than the Viking Age.

• The Moors are an intellectual people, courteous in manner and not altogether unlettered; but they are cruel, revengeful and bloodthirsty.