unwares
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English unwæres, unwares, from unwær (“unware”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
unwares (comparative more unwares, superlative most unwares)
- (now rare, archaic) Unexpectedly, suddenly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Still as he went, he craftie stales did lay / With cunning traines him to entrap vnwares.