Meanings
adjectiveunweeting (comparative more unweeting, superlative most unweeting)
comparative more unweeting · superlative most unweeting
- obsoleteObsolete form 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, →OCLC2 more examples
Unweeting Cyparissus with a dart did strike this hart.
1567, Arthur Golding (translator), Ovid, Metamorphoses, (X, 135)Hereof this gentle knight unweeting was,
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
See un- (“not”), and weet, wit.
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