preliterate
Example Sentences
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If a child was preliterate she sent books, if floods destroyed towns she gave cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
In between were larger groups of seminomadic tribes that were mostly preliterate, with more loosely fixed memberships and territorial ranges than the settled societies.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
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
It is difficult to prove that preliterate people were motivated by faith rather than economic necessity.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
