What is "unlearn"

Usage examples of "unlearn".

In descriptive anatomy I have found little to unlearn, and not a great deal that was both new and important to learn.

I hope in the days to come future thinkers will unlearn us, and find ideas infinitely better.

So might the wish to unlearn be at last started in the inert mind of the mass.

Almost the only books left to me to read, and not to unlearn very much, are my first books--the graven classics of Greece and Rome, cut with a stylus so deeply into the tablet they cannot be erased.

These are the only books I do not wish to unlearn, one item only excepted, which I shall not here discuss.

East End on his way to America, she set herself with immediate, wifely devotion to unlearn her useless English in place of what seemed to be the prevailing tongue of the New World.

Because we are dealing with a part of our mind that has been virtually unused until now, you will have to unlearn some of the things instilled since childhood.

First she would have to unlearn the whole basis of the culture she has known.

Books are not buried with their owners, and the veriest book-miser that ever lived was probably doing far more for his successors than his more liberal neighbor who despised his learned or unlearned avarice.

It was something to have unlearned the pernicious habit of constantly giving poisons to a patient, as if they were good in themselves, of drawing off the blood which he would want in his struggle with disease, of making him sore and wretched with needless blisters, of turning his stomach with unnecessary nauseous draught and mixtures, --only because he was sick and something must be done.

The ball is now rolling gloriously on, and none are so able as they to increase its speed and its bulk, to add to its momentum and its magnitude--even though unlearned in letters, for this task none are so well educated.

At the bar of Christianity the poor man is the equal of the rich, and the learned of the unlearned, since intellectual acquisition is no guarantee of moral worth.

It was, indeed, a task for those three unlearned boys to express in writing, their grief consequent upon the death of their employer, and their sympathy for his living loved ones, but they performed it.

He was simple and unlearned, but his heart was very large, and he was honest and manly to the marrow of his bones.

But even the unlearned can see the difference, in the way in which Eastern Christianity flattened everything, as it flattened the faces of the images into icons.