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unˈkenned, ppl. a. Chiefly Sc. and north. Now arch. or dial.
[un-1 8. Cf. NFris. ünkänd, Norw. ukjend, Da. ukendt, Sw. okänd, Du. ongekend. See also unkent ppl. a.]
1. Unknown; strange.
a1300Cursor M. 28474 Wit womman knaun and vnkend. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xvi. (Magdalene) 891, I ame scho..Þat here þe thretty vintir ay til al men has vnkennyt bene. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 84, I aiugyd þat þey [sc. secrets] sholde noght be vnkennyd to þy worthy myghtynesse. a1440Sir Eglam. 843 A grype..Hur yonge sone awey..bare Yn-to a cuntre unkende. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 247, I am wonder wa to cum quhair I am vnkend. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 115 Quhat movit thame it is wnkend to me. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 1160 Let me..among the Great un-kend, My rest of dayes in the Calm Countrey end. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 193 Both of us altogether unkend and quite forgotten. 1721Ramsay Keitha 37 Ye unkend pow'rs wha water haunt or air. 1785Burns To W. Simpson vii, She lay like some unkend-of isle. 1814Scott Wav. xviii, For the..trouble which he had..to an unkenn'd degree.
2. Undescried, unperceived; unexplored.
1592Daniel Compl. Rosamond 422 Witnesse the world, wherein is nothing rifer, Then miseries vnken'd before they come. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 417 No Ship in the Day time, can pass unken'd. 1747[G. Ridley] Psyche xxiv. in Museum III. 88 Unkenn'd of her, he raught the embroider'd Bank. 1890æ. Prince Palomide 25 Deep in trackless, unkenned ways.
Hence unˈkennedness.
1896F. A. Steel Face of Waters i. vi, There was a strange unkennedness about their would-be familiarity. |