unkent
English
editEtymology
editFrom un- + kent, from ken (“to know”).
Adjective
editunkent (comparative more unkent, superlative most unkent)
- (obsolete or Scotland) unknown; strange
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
- Go, little book, thyself present, As child whose parent is unkent, To him, that is the president Of nobleness and chivalrie.
- 1613–1616, William Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. (please specify |book=1 or 2), London: […] Iohn Haviland, published 1625, →OCLC:
- as a swain unkent fed on the plains
Further reading
edit- “unkent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.