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Meaning of illiteral | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Not literal.

Examples

“Descending under the earth, is a translation most of all unexact and illiteral.”
“[…] did from erroneous conceptions speak false, slanderous and illiteral things of JACOB TORIAN tending to implicate him in some degree with certain horse-thieves by representing him as being favourably disposed towards them […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

illiterate illitic illitterate illlit illnesslike illocable

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