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Definition of Illiterately
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Illiterately
Literary usage of Illiterately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"(assist women in child-birth) a'kou$; (illiterately) ... (delivery in child-bed)
aeku$'men, a'kou$- men, a'kou$-mant; (illiterately) a'kaut$-mant. ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... rising from another's pain ; ocial to all, and most of bliss possest, Vhen
most he renders all, around him, blest : 'o unread 'squires illiterately gay ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"Philip Henslowe (as he usually signed his own name, though his practice was not
quite uniform) wrote badly and illiterately, and therefore employed a scribe ..."
4. The Book Collector: a General Survey of the Pursuit and of Those who Have by William Carew Hazlitt, Hector Carsewell Macpherson (1904)
"... particulars briefly— even illiterately; for in the latter case the burden of
discovering the exact truth is thrown on the customer or acquirer. ..."
5. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1841)
"Philip Henslowe (as he usually signed his own name, though his practice was not
quite uniform) wrote badly and illiterately, and therefore employed a scribe ..."
6. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1852)
"... of Chaillot, written in very bad, but perfectly intelligible French, though
illiterately spelled. Lady Sophia, though a Scotchwoman, and a Stuart of ..."
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