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English
Etymology
From un- + kent, from ken (“to know”).
Adjective
unkent (comparative more unkent, superlative most unkent)
- (obsolete or Scotland) unknown; strange
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, , →OCLC:Go, little book, thyself present, As child whose parent is unkent, To him, that is the president Of nobleness and chivalrie.
1613–1616, William Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. (please specify |book=1 or 2), London: Iohn Haviland, published 1625, →OCLC:as a swain unkent fed on the plains
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