† unˈknowledge Obs.
[un-1 12.]
1. Unacknowledgement.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 27833 O couaitise..cums..fals wittnesing, Vnknaulage, manath, and lesing. |
2. Absence or want of knowledge; ignorance. your unknowledge, unknown to you.
| c 1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 121 For unknowlage he is desesyd. 1470 Paston Lett. II. 393, I have betyn the mater for yow, your onknowleche, as I told hyr. 1483 Sc. Acts, Jas. III (1814) II. 166 At thay may not excuse thame of the vnknawlege of thir articlis. 1593 Nashe Christ's T. F ij b, Your pretence of vnknowledge or ignorance. |