preliterate

Example Sentences

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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

In the meantime, however, cultural anthropologists and human rights organisations abhor the inevitable implication that preliterate people live in chronic violence.

From The Guardian

One reason I learned to read was so that I could understand “hard books” like “Little Women,” which was read aloud to me as a preliterate child.

From New York Times

How can we ever hope to wrest the answers to those questions from Africa’s preliterate past, lacking the written evidence that teaches us about the spread of the Roman Empire?

From Literature

He wrote, “Death is as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise, but for our ancestors living in the distant, preliterate past, death arrived unbidden, unannounced and unexplained.”

From Forbes