Meanings
adjectiveunkent (comparative more unkent, superlative most unkent)
comparative more unkent · superlative most unkent
- Scotlandobsoleteunknown; strange
as a swain unkent fed on the plains
1613–1616, William Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. (please specify |book=1 or 2), London: […] George Norton1 more example
Go, little book, thyself present, As child whose parent is unkent, To him, that is the president Of nobleness and chivalrie.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC
Origin
From un- + kent, from ken (“to know”).
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