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unknowing en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English un- English know English -ing English knowing English unknowing From un- + knowing.

Meanings

1. Without knowing; ignorant.
2. (obsolete) Unknown, unbeknownst (to someone).
   • And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the chylde Jesus boode styll in hierusalem, vnknowinge to his father and mother. 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:

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Deriveds

unknowingness · unknowingly

Translations (9)

pl bezwiedny (without knowing) · fi epätietoinen (without knowing) · ar جَاهِل (without knowing) · mk не́свесен (without knowing) · got 𐌿𐌽𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (without knowing) · pdt onweetent (without knowing) · fi tietämätön (without knowing) · got 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (without knowing) · nl onwetend (without knowing)

unknowing en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English un- English know English -ing English knowing English unknowing From un- + knowing.

Meanings

1. Absence of knowledge; ignorance of something.
   • Only later in the performance do we get that diegetically earlier moment, the moment when still earlier questions, fears, knowings, and unknowings congeal into the medical diagnosis of “positive.” 2011, E. L. McCallum, Mikko Tuhkanen, Queer Times, Queer Becomings, page 320:

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