disacquaintancen.
/ˌdɪsəˈkweɪntəns/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈkweɪntns/ Now rare.
The state or fact of being or becoming disacquainted; lack of acquaintance; unfamiliarity with.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > unfamiliarity with, inexperience > [noun]
unwitc1175
uncunningnessa1325
uncunninghead1340
uncunningshipa1400
rawness1548
unskill1565
disacquaintance1589
inexperience1595
inacquaintance1597
unacquaintance1598
unaccustomedness1611
unacquaintednessa1617
illiteracy1660
greenness1740
griffinishness1850
unfamiliarity1880
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. ix. 131 The straungenesse..proceedes but of noueltie and disaquaintance with our eares.
1626 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God (ed. 2) 79 It is best for the Christian to begin this separation and disacquaintance in time.
1672 R. Baxter in Life J. Alleine (1838) I. 3 Men's strangeness and disacquaintance with those that are good.
1798 Morning Chron. 18 Aug. He was surprised at the Honourable and Learned Gentleman's professed disacquaintance with this long established principle.
1829 C. Lamb Let. 30 Nov. (1935) III. 237 The innocent taste of which [sc. milk-porridge] I am anxious to renew after a half-century's disacquaintance.
1872 St. Pauls Mag. July 88 I'm afraid you're in the wrong, sir, but no doubt it's from your disacquaintance with London.
1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 293 The footrails at the bars gleamed brightly from long disacquaintance with the sole-leather of customers.
2010 Agric. & Human Values 27 108/1 Our disacquaintance with death has implications that I think hurt us.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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