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unˈwittingness
[f. unwitting ppl. a.]
†1. Lack of knowledge; ignorance. Obs. rare.
a1300E.E. Psalter xxiv. 7 Giltes of mine youthe in thoghte And mine un-witandnesses [L. ignorantiæ] min noght. 1611Florio, Inscibilita, ignorance, vnwittingnesse. 1668J. Wilson tr. Erasmus' Praise of Folly (1913) 176 Nor does he cover their crime with any other excuse than that of unwittingnesse—because, saith he, ‘they know not what they do’.
2. Absence of realization; unconsciousness.
1873Mrs. Whitney Other Girls xviii, ‘Why don't we preach it ourselves,’ said Desire, with inimitable unwittingness. 1876Meredith Beauch. Career II. iii. 44 A lovely melting image of her stole over him; all the warmer for her unwittingness in producing it. |