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untaught (adj.) Old form(s): vntaught
uninstructed, uneducated, uncultivated
1H4 I.iii.42[Hotspur to King Henry, of a lord] as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, / He called them untaught knaves
RJ V.iii.214[Montague to dead Romeo] O thou untaught! what manners is in this, / To press before thy father to a grave?
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