preliterate

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Keller’s comparison between a ship lost in the fog and her preliterate life provides insight into her mental state.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Myths themselves commonly embody the religious beliefs of ancient or preliterate peoples, but Philip Ball suggests that we are still generating them.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2021

Reading these books aloud, as I’m doing for our preliterate child, can be a little hard to finesse.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2020

The most puzzling part of the whole civilisation-to-the-rescue proposal is that whenever modern-day explorers have encountered preliterate people, the violent ones have invariably been the explorers.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2019

Toothless old people, the repositories of information in a preliterate society, could now be fed and live longer.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond