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- noun Failure to
understand ;incomprehension . - adjective Not
understanding .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The reason Jake Sully is a soldier rather than a scientist is also because of how ununderstanding a soldier is compared to a scientist.
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To look on such a death and to continue to live on, still blind, still ununderstanding, even though the Teacher Who had come to explain had sighed ere he died:
"Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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Well, we have a place of refuge, eh? where the wicked and the boring and the ununderstanding cannot pursue.
Letters of Franklin K. Lane Franklin Knight Lane 1892
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In response to the lurid and graphic images of disdain heaped upon my head by an unruly and unwashed mob, whose ununderstanding is undertaken to undermine my high regard for telemarketing, telemarketers, and telemarketing management, I respond.
Mitchieville 2008
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