The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unknow \Un*know"\, v. t. [1st un- + know.]
To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of. [Obs.]
To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of. [Obs.]
Unknow \Un*know"\, a. [See Un- not, Know.]
Unknown. [Obs.] ``French of Paris was to her unknow.''
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
vb. To undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something.
Usage examples of "unknow".
WIVES IN THE SERE I Never a careworn wife but shows, If a joy suffuse her, Something beautiful to those Patient to peruse her, Some one charm the world unknows Precious to a muser, Haply what, ere years were foes, Moved her mate to choose her.
Llan from Thorney Isle, Llanbank slumbered dark and unknowing, only a few trails of smoke marking the existence of the sleepers within.
But a dark knowledge was rivering just beyond his mindreach, too slow and vast to be accessible, like the unknowing that tells itself through our lives.
I had spent as unknowing Caela, my head bent over my sewing, watching the needle ply in and out, in and out, in and out.
He had imagined a long-ago expedition, venturing unknowing into Chenzeme territory, stumbling across some alien stronghold, and only one of them surviving the encounter, the one man who had been made into a weapon of the cult.
He suffered it to remain, unknowing that it was the sepulchral emblem of Christianity.
In that fell and fierce delirium which had so unaccountably seized his soul, which had so ravaged the disordered brain, might he not, indeed, unknowing to himself, have committed the crime of which he was accused?
I found a silent line of grim-faced peasants waiting by the bridge, salvaged possessions in bundles and handcarts, little children all unknowing smiles, older ones wide-eyed and glancing at parents for reassurance seldom forthcoming.
The small band going with him were busy packing the miscellany of possessions, safeguarding the unknowing, unconscious minds of the colonists, into a series of leather packs.
I was very young, and unknowing, and I thought her looks would make her the ideal wife.
This poor mother, all unknowing, and all for the best as she think, does such thing as lose her daughter body and soul, and we must not tell her, we must not even warn her, or she die, then both die.
She knew not altogether what she did, and thus unknowing, she only stole.
The tiny wounds of the throats disappear, and they go back to their play unknowing ever of what has been.
WIVES IN THE SERE I Never a careworn wife but shows, If a joy suffuse her, Something beautiful to those Patient to peruse her, Some one charm the world unknows Precious to a muser, Haply what, ere years were foes, Moved her mate to choose her.
They spake of sundry hard'ning of metal, And spake of medicines therewithal, And how, and when, it shoulde harden'd be, Which is unknowen algate* unto me.