unweeting

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English

Etymology

See un- (“not”), and weet, wit.

Adjective

unweeting (comparative more unweeting, superlative most unweeting)

Obsolete form of unwitting.
- 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), Ovid, Metamorphoses, (X, 135):
  Unweeting Cyparissus with a dart did strike this hart.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
  Unweeting have offended
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Hereof this gentle knight unweeting was,

Related terms

unweetingly

References

“unweeting”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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