preliterate

Example Sentences

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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

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

“The fact that we discovered this intuition in infants and in preliterate adults does not mean that this form of reasoning is flawless,” he says.

From Nature

In preliterate eras, tales had to be appealing to the ear and memorable to the mind or else they would simply disappear.

From Time

Warnings on equipment certainly are a misplaced protection for the preliterate child.

From New York Times