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▪ I. † unˈcunning, n. Obs.
Forms: (see cunning n.).
[un-1 12.]
Lack of knowledge; ignorance.
Common in 14–15th c.
c1290Beket 1028 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 136 For euere ich dradde for oncunninge mi soule forto spille. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 256, I wite þis no man, Bot myn vnconyng, þis folie my self bigan. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 394 Þerfore trewe men in Crist shulden be wel paied of þis uncunnyng. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 325 Myn vnkonyng of þat me schal excuse, Of whiche matere knowleche haue I non. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. iv. 156 At whiche men mowe lawȝe and take bourde for her symplenes or her vnkunnyng as of folis. a1470H. Parker Dives & Pauper (W. de W. 1496) i. lvii. 99/1 They wolde excuse them by unconnynge yf they dyde amys.
▪ II. unˈcunning, a. Now arch.
Forms: (see cunning a.).
[un-1 10. Cf. OHG. unchunnênti, Goth. unkunnands.]
1. Of persons: Ignorant, unlearned, unskilful.
α1340Ayenb. 59 Hi..ziggeþ þet hi byeþ..zuo zenuol and zuo onconnynde. c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 152 Bot som men has wytte to understand, And yhit þai er ful unkunand. c1400Rowland & O. 293 Unconnande Sarazene,..in þis place þi wykkednes es ȝare. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 222 Quhasa did the contrair he war ungentill, uncurtas, and unconnand.
βc1374Chaucer Boeth. i. pr. i. (1868) 7 Any vnkonnyng and vnprofitable man. c1420Chron. Vilod. 4 Þys werke, þat y, so vnconnynge, Presumpswysly haue vndere⁓take. c1450Mirk's Festial 213 Lest any vnconyng man take on for anoþir, I will tell you þes woymen. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 287/1 The bisshop repreuyd hym sore as unconnyng and an ydeote. 1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly F iv, The rasher, the uncunnynger, and lesse circumspect,..the more yet is he regarded. a1577Sir T. Smith Commw. Eng. iii. viii. (1584) 112 Some vncunning Lawyers that would make a newe barbarous Latine worde to betoken lande giuen in fidem. 1601Munday & Chettle Death Earl Huntington v. ii, Thus is Matildaes story showne in act, And rough heawen out by an vncunning hand.
[1791Wolcot (P. Pindar) Ode to my Ass ix, But I'm a modest, not unconnyinge elf. 1792― Odes Kien Long v. ii, This to my simple and unconnying mind Seems œconomical.] 1826–7K. Digby Broadst. Hon. ii, Tancredus (1828) 280 A theme which requires a far less earthly and uncunning tongue than mine.
b. absol. (chiefly as pl.).
1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 244 Wardeyns gode he sette,..Justise þat þe lawe gette to vnkonand þei kende. 1477Earl Rivers Dictes (1877) 36 b, A wyseman ought not to exalte him self byfore the vnconning. 1495Festivall 186 b, The fyrst is teche the vnconnynge that he sauour rightfully. 1511–2Act 3 Hen. VIII, c. xi, Many of the Kynges liege people..cannot descerne the uncunnyng from the cunnyng.
c. Const. in, of, or with inf.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxviii. 92 He is vnkunand in gastly batayle. 1357Lay Folks Catech. (Lamb. MS.) 1146 To teche men þat be vncunnynge of goddys lawe. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 185 Person or parisch prest,..Vnconnynge to lere lewed men. c1440Gesta Rom. xliii. 170 (Harl. MS.), They coude fynde noon, but that they wer corrupte,..or vncunnynge in the mystery. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 159 That is gret pite, as in youthe to be vncunnynge and vnknowynge of hym selff. [1888Doughty Arabia Deserta I. 278 But ye be also uncunning in many things, which the Aarab ken.]
2. Of actions, etc.: Arising from, indicative of, ignorance or unskilfulness.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 245 William put þat knyȝt out of þat chivalrie, for he hadde i-doo an unkonnynge dede. c1449Pecock Repr. i. x. 51 The wanton and vnkunnyng bering of hem whiche wolen not allowe eny gouernaunce to be the lawe..of God. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Titus iii. 31 b, Folyshe and vnconnyng questions, and entangled genealogies. a1652Brome City Wit i. i. Wks. 1873 I. 284 If my uncunning Disposition be my only vice.
So † unˈcunninghead, -ship. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 26306, I wat not quar-on it es lang, Queþer on mi plight or on þin,..Or min vnconanscipe [v.r. unkunnandeshepe], mai fall. 1340Ayenb. 33 Efterward comþ slacnesse;..hit comþ of onconnyndehede, and of fole hete. Ibid. 40 Be hare kueadnesse, oþer uor onconynghede. |