unweeting en · ADJ
Etymology
See un- (“not”), and weet, wit.
Meanings
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(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of unwitting.
alt of unwitting
Unweeting have offended
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Hereof this gentle knight unweeting was,
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Unweeting Cyparissus with a dart did strike this hart.
1567, Arthur Golding (translator), Ovid, Metamorphoses, (X, 135)
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unweeting | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unweeting | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |