unweetinglyadv.
Now archaic.
Unknowingly; unconsciously; †without it being known.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > absence of perception > [adverb]
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unfeltly1606
unsensibly1658
insciously1675
unconsciously1709
imperceptively1861
inconsciently1913
unconsciently1929
a1400–50 Alexander 134 Furþe..withouten fole he passis his way, Vn-wetandly to any wee.
14.. Chaucer's Pardoner's T. (Corpus MS.) 24 Loth vnkyndely lay by his doughtres tuo vnwetyngly, So drunke he was.
a1542 T. Wyatt And if an Lye in Wks. (1913) I. 176 To frame all wel, I ame content That it were done unwetingly.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. viii. sig. S7 I..Found them faring so, As by the way vnweetingly I strayd. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1680 They only set on sport and play Unweetingly importun'd Thir own destruction to come speedy upon them. View more context for this quotation
1792 D. Lloyd Voy. Life 30 Prone to the lap of lewd Licentiousness The high-flown rabble throngs unweetingly.
1802 J. Baillie 1st Pt. Ethwald iv. iv Woggarwolfe..once before unweetingly has served us.
a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 157 Shakspeare..assumes the utmost pomp of diction on these occasions, complying, unweetingly, with Aristotle's precepts.
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