unkent

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ kent, from ken (“to know”).

Adjective

unkent (comparative more unkent, superlative most unkent)

1. (obsolete or Scotland) unknown; strange
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:

     Go, little book, thyself present, As child whose parent is unkent, To him, that is the president Of nobleness and chivalrie.

   • 1613–1616, William Browne, “(please specify the page)”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. (please specify |book=1 or 2), London: […] Iohn Haviland, published 1625, →OCLC:

     as a swain unkent fed on the plains

Further reading

• “unkent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.