unculture

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ culture.

Noun

unculture (uncountable)

  1. A lack of culture.
    • c. 1624, Joseph Hall, Wickedness making a fruitful land barren (sermon)
      Never was there any sterility, whereof there may not be a cause given. Either the season is unkindly parching with drought, or drenching with wet, or nipping with frost, or blasting with pernicious airs, or rotting with mildews: [] or some natural fault in the soil; or misdemeanour of the owners; idleness, ill-husbandry, in mistiming, neglect of meet helps, unculture, ill choice of seed: but, whatever be the second cause, we are sure who is the first; He turneth.
    • 1898, Richard Francis Burton, The Jew, chapter 3:
      Greed and craft, and even ferocity, are to be read in such faces, but rarely weakness, and never imbecility; roughness, unculture, and coarseness are there, not vulgarity, nor want of energy

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