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unˈwisdom
[OE. unwísdóm (un-1 12), = OHG. unwîstuom, -tuam, -tôm.]
1. Lack or absence of wisdom; ignorance, folly, stupidity.
In very frequent use till c 1390, and (as a new formation) from c 1843, when its currency was due to, or stimulated by, Carlyle. There is lack of evidence from 1612 to 1832.
c825Vesp. Psalter xxi. 3 God min ic cleopiu..on naeht & nales to unwisdome me. c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past C. xlix. 375 Ða ðe unmedome bioð to ðære lare oððe for ᵹioᵹuðe oððe for unwisdome. c1205Lay. 3383 We habbet idon unwisdom Þat we mine fader habbet vnderfon mid þirtti cnihten. a1225Ancr. R. 278 Bihold i..þine soule, oðer two [things]—sunne & ignorance, þet is, unwisdom & unwitenesse. a1300E.E. Psalter xxxvii. 5 Stanke and roten mine erres er ma, Fra face of mine vnwisdome swa. 1382Wyclif Prov. xv. 14 The mouth of foolis is fed with vnwisdam. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. iii. 150 Schamed of her folie and of her vnwisdom and pride. a1470H. Parker Dives & Pauper (Pynson, 1493) vi. x. s vi/1 Woman lowede hir and knowlegide hir vnwisedom and hir foly. 1509Fisher Funeral Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 301 All we..may saye by lamentable complaynt of our vnwysdome vnto him, Ah domine si fuisses hic. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 117 For and ȝe do, ȝe ar abill to tak Throw sic wnwisdome..greit skayth. 1612T. James Corrupt. Scripture iii. 13 Forsooth vnwisedome is,..which is plenteous in euill.
1832Westm. Rev. Apr. 321 The unwisdom of persecuting the Saint-Simonians. 1839Carlyle Chartism iv. (1840) 27 The Earth..bountifully sends food and increase; if man's un⁓wisdom did not intervene and forbid. 1873Spencer Stud. Sociol. 170 The unwisdom of officialism is daily illustrated.
2. With a, etc.:
a. An instance of folly or ignorance; an unwise act.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 5046 A grete vnwysdom for soþe hyt ys. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. vii. 42 Is..the fruit of an unwisdom doubtful? 1855Kingsley Misc. (1859) I. 8 A learned statement of facts in answer to some unwisdom of a Quarterly reviewer. 1869F. W. Newman Misc. 98 It has been pronounced an unwisdom in any one to write in a dramatic form, unless [etc.].
b. An unwise Power or Being. nonce-use.
1839Carlyle Chartism v. (1858) 27 A world understood always to be made and governed by a Providence and Wisdom, not by an Unwisdom. |