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  1.  Unacknowledgement.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 27833. O couaitise … cums … fals wittnesing, Vnknaulage, manath, and lesing.

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  2.  Absence or want of knowledge; ignorance. Your unknowledge, unknown to you.

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c. 1450.  Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), 121. For unknowlage he is desesyd.

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1470.  Paston Lett., II. 393. I have betyn the mater for yow, your onknowleche, as I told hyr.

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1483.  Sc. Acts, Jas. III. (1814), II. 166. At thay may not excuse thame of the vnknawlege of thir articlis.

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1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T., F ij b. Your pretence of vnknowledge or ignorance.

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