What does learnling mean?
Learnling means (rare, nonstandard) One who learns; pupil; student; apprentice.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare, nonstandard) One who learns; pupil; student; apprentice.
So faulty was his knowledge that to this day impotent learnlings, who have drowned their little souls in printer's ink, find a cheap pleasure in holding up to ridicule the "ignorance," the "lack of system," the "fallacies and errors," of this man who was all heart; smiling contemptuously, too, these impotent learnlings, as if it were more honorable and more praiseworthy to be all head, no matter how diminutive and vapory.
Perchance in upland pastures there may stray Some learnling of the elder fold, to teach [...]
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Learnling means (rare, nonstandard) One who learns; pupil; student; apprentice.
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So faulty was his knowledge that to this day impotent learnlings, who have drowned their little souls in printer's ink, find a cheap pleasure in holding up to ridicule the "ignorance," the "lack of system," the "fallacies and errors," of this man who was all heart; smiling contemptuously, too, these impotent learnlings, as if it were more honorable and more praiseworthy to be all head, no matter how diminutive and vapory.
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