"nonadept" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, Kala Trobe, The Witch's Guide to Life, page 96:",
          "text": "Many people who disapprove of alcohol are actually terrified of losing control, which is the attitude of a nonadept.",
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          "ref": "2013, Celia Friedman, Black Sun Rising:",
          "text": "A nonadept sacrifices God knows what, to set up a blockage even I can't Work through—'",
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          "ref": "2018, Dinkar Goswami, Yogini: The Quest for the Gate:",
          "text": "It is mysterious and appears sensually powerful to a nonadept.",
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          "ref": "2020, Vanessa Davies, Dimitri Laboury, The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography, page 611:",
          "text": "Regarding the ranges of these palaeographic areas, the terms mentioned might again be misleading to a nonadept, who, for example, has to know that the Delta is mostly uncharted territory in regard to Demotic palaeography (due to the lack of sources from this area).",
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        "One who is not an adept, one who has not mastered a particular esoteric discipline."
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          "ref": "1995, Jane Amari, quoted by Lee Nordling, Your Career in the Comics, page 110:",
          "text": "One of the things that has bugged me a long time about strips—and it hasn't been solved yet—is that the comic artists seem to be totally nonadept at dealing with cultural diversity.",
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          "ref": "2002, Margery Sabin, Dissenters and Mavericks, page 86:",
          "text": "The dialogs have a disorienting effect, stranding the nonadept Western reader somewhere between Sleeman's experienced poise and a touristic vertigo.",
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          "ref": "2012, S. Ancoli, Erik Peper, M. Quinn, Mind/Body Integration: Essential Readings in Biofeedback, pages 119 passage=How can their internal functioning be translated (that is, made explicit and external), and then learned by ordinary or nonadept people so that they too may be able to use these skills?:",
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          "ref": "2015, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability, page 121:",
          "text": "At the same time, individuals trapped within institutional structures become increasingly nonadept at navigating extrainstitutional locations.",
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          "text": "Regarding the ranges of these palaeographic areas, the terms mentioned might again be misleading to a nonadept, who, for example, has to know that the Delta is mostly uncharted territory in regard to Demotic palaeography (due to the lack of sources from this area).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Margery Sabin, Dissenters and Mavericks, page 86:",
          "text": "The dialogs have a disorienting effect, stranding the nonadept Western reader somewhere between Sleeman's experienced poise and a touristic vertigo.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012, S. Ancoli, Erik Peper, M. Quinn, Mind/Body Integration: Essential Readings in Biofeedback, pages 119 passage=How can their internal functioning be translated (that is, made explicit and external), and then learned by ordinary or nonadept people so that they too may be able to use these skills?:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability, page 121:",
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