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Middle English
Etymology
un- + cunninge
Adjective
uncunninge
- ignorant
c. 1382 (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “Boetius de consolatione Philosophie”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes , published
1542,
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But if ye Muses hadden withdrawen fro me, with your flateryes, any uncunninge and unprofitable man, as men ben wont to finde comunly amonges the poeple- (please add an English translation of this quotation)