unwit

American  

[uhn-wit] / ʌnˈwɪt /

verb (used with object)

unwitted, unwitting

1. Obsolete. to render devoid of wit; derange.

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Etymology

Origin of unwit

First recorded in 1595–1605; un- ² + wit ¹

Example Sentences

Any attorney who takes part in the case “will serve as an unwit­ting accom­plice to this crime,” Natalia Magnitskaya, the mother of the accused, wrote in a letter to the bar association in January.

From Time

And she hath found me my love, thy brother Arthur, and delivered him from unwit and wanhope; and she it is who drew all you hither unto us, and who delivered you from the felons who had mastered you. 

From Project Gutenberg