(also 5–6 -know, 6 Sc. -knaw), obs. variants of UNKNOWN ppl. a.

1

For the phrase unknowe, unkissed, see UNKISSED ppl. a.

2

1340–70.  Alex. & Dind., 382. We holden hit a vertu … Among þe men of our march mercy vnknowe.

3

c. 1350.  Lybeaus Disc., 71. Than may ye wete a rowe, ‘The fayre unknowe,’ Sertes so hatte he.

4

1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 87. Þan were þe Parthi as it were … vnknowe amonge men of the est londes.

5

1430–40.  Lydg., Bochas, VIII. xiv. (1558), 9 b. A knight vnknowe angelyke of vysage.

6

c. 1440.  Gesta Rom. i. 2 (Harl. MS.). Þat she euer pursuyd for my deth, þat is vnknowe to me.

7

1513.  Douglas, Æneid, VI. ii. 52. Virgyne, na kynd of pane may rise Vnknaw to me.

8

  So † Unknowed ppl. a. Obs.

9

c. 1380.  Sir Ferumb., 3847. If þar comeþ any ounknowed man.

10

c. 1380.  [see NKEPT ppl. a. 2].

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