knowing
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[edit]knowing (comparative more knowing, superlative most knowing)
- Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent. [from 14th c.]
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- The knowing and intelligent part of the world.
- Deliberate, wilful. [from 16th c.]
- Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning. [from 17th c.]
- a knowing rascal
- (archaic) Demonstrating knowledge of what is in fashion; stylish, chic. [from 18th c.]
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 173:
- ‘I was a raw boy from College, and fancied it very knowing to marry a girl that all the young fellows of my acquaintance reckoned so confounded handsome.’
- 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
- Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it.
- The ability to know something without being taught.
- Suggestive of private knowledge or understanding. [from 19th c.]
- 2017 July 30, Ali Barthwell, “Ice and fire finally meet in a front-loaded episode of Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- Jon and Tyrion greet each other with the words that have been used against them as weapons, sharing a knowing smile.
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[edit]intelligent
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shrewd
suggestive of private knowledge
deliberate
Preposition
[edit]knowing
- Given my knowledge about someone or something.
- Knowing you, you would try not to be late for school.
Verb
[edit]knowing
- present participle and gerund of know
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[edit]knowing (plural knowings)
- The act or condition of having knowledge.
- 2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (60th Anniversary Edition, 1949, page 194)
- Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
- 2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (60th Anniversary Edition, 1949, page 194)
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