Word Meanings - UNWITTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not knowing; unconscious; ignorant. -- Un*wit"ting*ly, adv.

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• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• UNCONSCIOUS
  1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper. 2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious
• KNOWINGNESS
  The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The
• KNOWING
  1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog. The knowing and intelligent part of the world. South. 2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.
• KNOWABLENESS
  The state or quality of being knowable. Locke.
• IGNORANTLY
  In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.
• KNOWER
  One who knows. Shak.
• IGNORANTIST
  One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.
• KNOWLECHING
  Knowledge. Chaucer.
• KNOWN
  of Know.
• KNOW-ALL
  One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a wiseacre; -- usually ironical.
• KNOW
  Knee. Chaucer.
• KNOWABLE
  That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained. Thus mind and matter, as known or knowable, are only two different series of phenomena or qualities. Sir W. Hamilton.
• IGNORANTISM
  The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.
• KNOWLECHE
  See CHAUCER
• KNOW-NOTHINGISM
  The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings.
• IGNORANT
  1. Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened. He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. Tillotson. 2. Unacquainted with; unconscious
• KNOWLEDGE
  The last part is the Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. lac, 1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance;
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• FOREKNOWER
  One who foreknows.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• BEKNOW
  To confess; to acknowledge. Chaucer.
• UNKNOW
  1. To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of. 2. To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of.
• UNKNOWLEDGED
  Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.
• ACKNOWLEDGER
  One who acknowledges.
• OVERKNOWING
  Too knowing or too cunning.
• FOREKNOWINGLY
  With foreknowledge. He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life. Jer. Taylor.
• ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  1. The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude. 2. The act of owning or recognized in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth,