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Definition
unable to read or write (not literate)
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uninformed in a particular field or general subject area
or:
uninformed in a particular field or general subject area
- The soldiers were finding nothing but garments and kitchen utensils; there were no letters, no books, not even a newspaper, as if the room were the habitation of an illiterate.3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (46% in)
- ...her perception into separate snatches: she knew the moment when she saw the number-then the moment when she looked at a list on a board in the moldy half-light of a doorway and saw the words "John Galt, 5th, rear" scrawled in pencil by some illiterate hand-then the moment when she stopped at the foot of a stairway, glanced up at the vanishing angles of the railing and suddenly leaned against the wall, trembling with terror, preferring not to know-then the moment when she felt the...3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (34% in)
There are no more uses of "illiterate" in Atlas Shrugged.
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