| 单词 |
unweetingly |
| 释义 |
unˈweetingly, adv. Now arch. [un-1 11. Cf. prec. and unwittingly adv.] Unknowingly; unconsciously; † without it being known.
a1400–50Alexander 134 Furþe..withouten fole he passis his way, Vn-wetandly to any wee. 14..Chaucer's Pardoner's T. 24 (Corpus MS.), Loth vnkyndely lay by his doughtres tuo vnwetyngly, So drunke he was. a1542Wyatt ‘And if’ Wks. 1913 I. 176 To frame all wel, I ame content That it were done unwetingly. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. viii. 15, I..found them faring so, As by the way vnweetingly I strayd. 1671Milton Samson 1680 They only set on sport and play Unweetingly importun'd Thir own destruction to come speedy upon them. 1792D. Lloyd Voy. Life 30 Prone to the lap of lewd Licentiousness The high-flown rabble throngs unweetingly. 1802J. Baillie 1st Pt. Ethwald iv. iv, Woggarwolfe..once before unweetingly has served us. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 157 Shakspeare..assumes the utmost pomp of diction on these occasions, complying, unweetingly, with Aristotle's precepts. |

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