unknowing
English
Adjective
unknowing (comparative more unknowing, superlative most unknowing)
- Without knowing; ignorant.
- (obsolete) Unknown, unbeknownst (to someone).
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke II:
- And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the chylde Jesus boode styll in hierusalem, vnknowinge to his father and mother.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke II:
Translations
without knowing
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Noun
unknowing (plural unknowings)
- Absence of knowledge; ignorance of something.
- 2011, E. L. McCallum, Mikko Tuhkanen, Queer Times, Queer Becomings (page 320)
- Only later in the performance do we get that diegetically earlier moment, the moment when still earlier questions, fears, knowings, and unknowings congeal into the medical diagnosis of “positive.”
- 2011, E. L. McCallum, Mikko Tuhkanen, Queer Times, Queer Becomings (page 320)
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