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unˈknowingly, adv.
[un-1 11: cf. prec.]
Without knowledge, ignorantly; unintentionally. Also const. to (a person).
1340Ayenb. 175 Huanne me zeneȝeþ wytindeliche, me zeneȝeþ more ynoȝ þanne onknawyndliche. c1440Promp. Parv. 366/1 On-knowyngly, ignoranter. a1500Ratis Raving i. 904 Better to be styll Than say vnknawandly thar tyll. 1641Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 22 Nov. 70, I speake it not unknowingly. 1697Dryden's Virg. Past. Preface (1721) I. 97 The Roman Historian..falls, unknowingly, into a Verse not unworthy Virgil himself. 1709Shaftesbury Charac. (1711) II. 89 An Eye..fails not to shut together, of its own accord, unknowingly to us. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 595 Made unknowingly to work out the advantage of fellow-creatures, whereof we have not the least knowledge. 1807Wordsw. White Doe ii. 100 Leaning on a lance Which he had grasped unknowingly. 1871Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. iii. 213 Nations and parties learn to shape themselves unknowingly. |