unwit

[ uhn-wit ]

verb (used with object)

, un·wit·ted, un·wit·ting.

1. Obsolete. to render devoid of wit; derange.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unwit¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; un- ² + wit ¹

Example Sentences

Any attorney who takes part in the case “will serve as an unwit­ting accom­plice to this crime,” Natalia Magnitskaya, the mother of the accused, wrote in a letter to the bar association in January.

From Time

And she hath found me my love, thy brother Arthur, and delivered him from unwit and wanhope; and she it is who drew all you hither unto us, and who delivered you from the felons who had mastered you. 

From Project Gutenberg

This was the end of Viridis’ tale, save that she told how that it was she that had uttered those two shrieks which Arthur and Birdalone had heard from the thicket; and that she had so done when the two false way-leaders laid hold of her to drag her away from her man, who stood there before her bound to a tree that he might perish there, whereon the two caitiffs had smitten her into unwit that they might have no more of her cries.

From Project Gutenberg