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Unknowing   /ənnˈoʊɪŋ/   Listen
Unknowing

adjective
1.
Unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge.  Synonyms: ignorant, unknowledgeable, unwitting.  "An unknowledgeable assistant" , "His rudeness was unwitting"
noun
1.
Ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs).  Synonyms: ignorantness, nescience, unknowingness.



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"Unknowing" Quotes from Famous Books



... in his wake, the blind wave break in fire, He shall fulfill God's utmost will, unknowing his desire; And he shall see old planets pass and alien stars arise, And give the gale his reckless sail in shadow ...
— The Frontier in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner

... unknowing use of some basic physics, and I'm afraid I relapsed for a few minutes into the role of teacher and told them a little bit about the laws of radiation and absorption ...
— Junior Achievement • William Lee

... unpretentious sheet, neither very ably edited nor extensively circulated,—the chief spokesman of the nearest county town. But with all its limitations, its readers represented to Lucyet the great harsh, unknowing, and yet irresistibly ...
— A Christmas Accident and Other Stories • Annie Eliot Trumbull

... do that, my darling," she prayed in piteous entreaty, "don't do that. For I will share all your trouble, do share it even now, beforehand, foreseeing it, while you still lie smiling unknowing of your own distress. I shall live through it many times, by day and night, while you live through it only once. And so you must be forbearing towards me, my dear one, ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet

... yells and shouts from the far side, and we knew that the work had begun, and ran up the hillside. Then fled a man in chain mail out of the place, leaping over the earthworks straight at us, unknowing. ...
— King Olaf's Kinsman - A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in - the Days of Ironside and Cnut • Charles Whistler


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