unweeting

English

Etymology

See un- (“not”), and weet, wit.

Adjective

unweeting (comparative more unweeting, superlative most unweeting)

1. 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], 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, →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.