Uncultivation

[UN-¹ 12 and 5 b.] Lack of cultivation; want of culture.

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1796. J. Moser, Hermit of Caucasus, I. 52. The disorder and uncultivation that reigned in it.

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1829. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), II. 112. It is the sign of uncultivation to wonder.

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1840. Mill, Diss. & Disc. (1859), I. 94. The question often is, which is least prejudicial…, uncultivation or malcultivation?

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