单词 | unknownly |
释义 | unknownlyadv. 1. Unknowingly, unwittingly; unintentionally.In later use probably reflecting a misapprehension of a colloquial or regional pronunciation of unknowingly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adverb] > in ignorance, unknowingly unknowingly1340 unknowinga1382 unwarec1386 unwittinglya1425 unbewares1483 unknownly1495 unawares1535 unaware1593 at unawares1596 unsuspectingly1798 unsuspectedly1826 uncognizantly1843 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) vii. lv. sig. riiii/1 Chyldren that vnknowenly [a1398 BL Add. vnwetinge] pisse in theyr beddes. 1668 H. Oldenburg Let. 18 Jan. in C. R. Weld Hist. Royal Soc. (1848) I. 209 They should be obliged to shew it first to the President, (for fear of lodging unknownly ballads and buffooneries in these scoffing times). 1800 Universalist's Misc. July 242 A ship has unknownly got into one of these [currents]. 1888 New Era (Humeston, Iowa) 19 Dec. The mother..unknownly bid her good-by. 1934 Scandia (Kansas) Jrnl. 25 Jan. 1/4 She unknownly stepped before a car driven by Henry Hendrickson. 2011 W. D. Lawrence Full Cylinder i. 10 The man had unknownly picked the wrong place and the wrong time. 2. In an unknown manner; esp. in a manner or to an extent that is not known or understood; incomprehensibly; mysteriously. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [adverb] inscrutably1597 unknownly1611 inaccessibly1621 over a person's heada1626 unconceivably1630 indiscernibly1636 unintelligibly1664 unimaginably1666 unsearchably1706 impenetrably1759 unfathomablya1822 unrecognizably1836 incomprehensibly1863 untraceably1875 indigestibly1977 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Isconosciutamente, vnknowenly. a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) vi Just then it open'd; and th' enclosed Grain Unknownly vanisht; and then, clos'd again. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 170 To what end is it that men should bee in these dayes so unknownly valorous and couragious. 1700 H. Layton Search after Souls i. 204 Most likely he died in the Mount, and was buried, but so unknownly, as they counted it..to be God's own doing. 1765 R. Robinson Atheist invited to Believe 7 Such vast and unknownly great Bodies as Earth and Sea. 1907 L. M. Eilshemius Poet & Elegiac Poems 103 In the mystic clay Unknownly acts some higher element. 2007 Philosophy 82 340 The material objects are very varied in their size, and of an unknownly vast number. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1495 |
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