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
Keller’s comparison between a ship lost in the fog and her preliterate life provides insight into her mental state.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
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
Toothless old people, the repositories of information in a preliterate society, could now be fed and live longer.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
