unweeting
English
Adjective
unweeting (comparative more unweeting, superlative most unweeting)
- Obsolete form of unwitting.
- 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), Ovid, Metamorphoses, (X, 135):
- Unweeting Cyparissus with a dart did strike this hart.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Unweeting have offended
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- Hereof this gentle knight unweeting was,
- 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), Ovid, Metamorphoses, (X, 135):
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(See the entry for unweeting in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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