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unaˈcquaintedness
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The state or fact of not being acquainted: a. Const. with.
1617Hieron Wks. (1620) II. 380 Doe not cherish thy selfe in thy vnaccquaintednesse with this broken heart. 1682J. Flavel Fear 115 We may be excused for our fears, by reason of our own unacquaintedness with sufferings. 1764T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. i. (1765) 5 From unacquaintedness with the geography of the country. 1825–9Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor II. xiv. 257, I have no doubt that I uttered many shocking avowals of my entire unacquaintedness with these things. 1851I. Taylor Wesley 250 With our..unacquaintedness with the manners and habits of the lower classes.
b. With in, of, or without const.
1667Inconveniences of Toleration 6 It is nothing but unacquaintedness which makes them lyable to be so scared with all those terrible and groundless Stories. 1669Earl of Orrery Parthen. iii. v. 44 By their unacquaintedness in using of an Oar [they were] unable to Row. 1729‘Philalethes’ Enq. Price Coals 35 What proceeded from an Unacquaintedness in some Part of this Affair. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. xxxvii. 272 To what might not my youth, my sex, and unacquaintedness of the ways of that great, wicked town expose me? |