unkenned

American  

[uhn-kend, uhn-kent] / ʌnˈkɛnd, ʌnˈkɛnt /

adjective

Chiefly Scot.

1. unknown.

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unkenned British  

/ ʌnˈkɛnd, ʌnˈkɛnt /

adjective

1. dialect unknown

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Etymology

Origin of unkenned

Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at un- ¹, ken, -ed ²

Example Sentences

"What call had ye to put your neck in danger for an unkenned man's sake?" he cried, crabbedly.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Then came a word into his mouth, and he stood up and sang: From the Wethermel reek I set me to seek The world-ways unkenned And the first of the end.

From The Sundering Flood by Morris, May

He intended thus to see, while himself unknown, "the gentlewoman who sould have been his spouse, thinking to spy her pulchritud and behaviour unkenned by her."

From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George

They rade by nicht and they slept by day;    I wot they rade by an unkenned track; "The Bishop was licht as a flea," said Sim,    "Or ever we cam' to the Liddel rack."

From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Lang, Andrew

"Deliverer and spoiler are alike unkenned, then," said Bertha.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various