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
This is not to say that there isn’t anything valuable to be found in the oral histories of preliterate societies, or in prehistoric cave paintings and archaeological artifacts.
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
While all those types of information were also transmitted by other means in preliterate societies, writing made the transmission easier, more detailed, more accurate, and more persuasive.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
