Both Uses
illiterate
in
1984, by Orwell
(Edited)
- "Two dollars you promised me."
Winston found and handed over two creased and filthy notes, which Parsons entered in a small notebook, in the neat handwriting of the illiterate.p. 56.8illiterate = uninformed or unable to read and write - If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations.
p. 189.6 *illiteracy = inability to read and write
Definitions:
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(1)
(illiterate) unable to read or write (not literate)
or:
uninformed in a particular field or general subject areaNote that "functional illiteracy" means that although one may be able to read or write a little, their ability is inadequate for normal requirements in their society. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)