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English
Etymology
From knowledge + -less.
Adjective
knowledgeless (not comparable)
- Devoid of knowledge; ignorant.
1835, Richard Carlile, Church Reform, London: for the author, page 16:The dissent of knowledge and the dissent of ignorance, though disunited, are becoming too powerful for your knowledgeless Church; and you, at last, have consented to speak of its necessary reform!
1962, Aldous Huxley, chapter 15, in Island, New York: Bantam, published 1963, page 272:Ultimately and essentially there was only a luminous bliss, only a knowledgeless understanding, only union with unity in a limitless, undifferentiated awareness.
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