unkenned
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of unkenned
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at un- 1, ken, -ed 2
Example Sentences
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"What call had ye to put your neck in danger for an unkenned man's sake?" he cried, crabbedly.
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
"Deliverer and spoiler are alike unkenned, then," said Bertha.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
They rade by nicht and they slept by day; I wot they rade by an unkenned track; "The Bishop was licht as a flea," said Sim, "Or ever we cam' to the Liddel rack."
From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Andrew Lang
He intended thus to see, while himself unknown, "the gentlewoman who sould have been his spouse, thinking to spy her pulchritud and behaviour unkenned by her."
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid
Then came a word into his mouth, and he stood up and sang: From the Wethermel reek I set me to seek The world-ways unkenned And the first of the end.
From The Sundering Flood by May Morris
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