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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unknowing
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Incompetent doctors could seriously injure their unknowing patients.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It could have been Hope's unknowing repudiation of the popular notion of black people which fired my imagination.
▪ It took only a few seconds for Benny to rush on and spot her unknowing guides.
▪ Suddenly one of the best-known bandits in existence turns up, parks nearer us, and starts giving unknowing grins.
▪ They can even become unknowing agents of propaganda.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unknowing

c.1300, "without knowledge, ignorant," from un- (1) "not" + present participle of know (v.). Noun meaning "ignorance" is mid-14c., especially in phrase cloud of unknowing, title of a medieval book of Christian mysticism. Related: Unknowingly. A verb unknow "fail to recognize" is attested from late 14c.

Wiktionary
unknowing

a. 1 Without knowing; ignorant. 2 (context obsolete English) unknown, unbeknownst ((term: to) someone).

WordNet
unknowing

n. ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn: ignorantness, nescience, unknowingness]

unknowing

adj. lacking information or knowledge; "an unknowledgeable assistant" [syn: ignorant, unknowledgeable, unwitting]

Usage examples of "unknowing".

I stayed there, stick-frozen, afeared you were declining illand unknowing what to do.

After all, you are the eth, strong in the blackness of your unknowing.

The men listened, puzzled, and Giulio tried to appear as unknowing as the others.

Ah, how blissful is the unknowing mind, what joy to be ignorant of itchy slippery letters.

This was the very same term which the old nomad healer at Pex had used of his pendant as she backed away from him in terror, sharing with him as she did so the horrible image of the men he had slaughtered with it, all unknowing, on the Moonfell Plain.

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.