unkent
English
Etymology
un- + kent, from ken (“to know”).
Adjective
unkent (comparative more unkent, superlative most unkent)
- (obsolete or Scotland) unknown; strange
- (Can we find and add a quotation of W. Browne to this entry?)
- Spenser
- Go, little book, thyself present, As child whose parent is unkent, To him, that is the president Of nobleness and chivalrie.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unkent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)