6 sentences with 'literate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word literate and other words derived from it.
• « Princes and other elites wanted skilled bureaucrats to staff their mercantile empires; they needed literate men with knowledge of law and mathematics, even if they themselves were not merchants. »
• « Among the other causes of the Enlightenment, perhaps the most important was the significant growth of the literate urban classes, most notably what was called in France the bourgeoisie: the mercantile middle class. »
• « Despite the popularity of the concept of nationalism among members of the small middle class in northern Italy, it had relatively little mass support (and less than 3% of the population was literate in the standard 'Italian' language, the dialect spoken in the Tuscany region). »
• « The serfs, mostly illiterate, depended on these literate priests to read and interpret the Bible, the word of God, for them. »
• « A literate slave named Jemmy led a large group of slaves in an armed insurrection against white settlers, killing several before the militia stopped them. »
• « In protesting against the Stamp Act, wealthy and literate political figures such as John Adams supported the aims of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, even if they did not engage in the violent actions of the Sons. »