Lexicographical Neighbors of Ignorants
Literary usage of Ignorants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings (1902)
"Aussi nous est-il arrivé fréquemment de recueillir sur les lèvres d'hommes que
des-confesseurs encore jeunes, ignorants des coutumes de la vie ouvrière, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"At the end of this title, interlined by another hand, follow the words " newly,
overseer . . . ignorants ; " but these words are also struck through and ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1845)
"... that the diminution of ignorants (ie, of persons unable either to read or
write) is, during the last fifty years, from 48 to 35 per cent, of males, ..."