unknowing
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unknowing (comparative more unknowing, superlative most unknowing)
- Without knowing; ignorant.
- (obsolete) Unknown, unbeknownst (to someone).
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:
- And when they had fulfilled the dayes, as they returned home, the chylde Jesus boode styll in hierusalem, vnknowinge to his father and mother.
Translations
[edit]without knowing
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Noun
[edit]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.”