ken
noun
knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception.
kenned
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past participleof ken.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof ken.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
kennounknowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception.
Example Sentences
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"You seem to be kenned here," I observed when my breath had caught up with me.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
And if ye had kenned her in her youth, you would have said the same.
From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
When I was a youth, also, I dinna ken if there was a person in the village, save the minister, kenned what a newspaper was.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various
“When the auld laird lived, nane kenned o’ the whereabouts o’ that bonnie fish except himsel’ and me and the gipsy Faas.
From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Gordon Stables
Ay, I kenned ye wad wonder at it.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 by Various
