unwittingly

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And now--unwittingly, you've made me dream Of violets, and my soul's forgotten gleam Charles Bertram Johnson A LITTLE CABIN Des a little cabin Big ernuff fur two.

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  1. Without knowing; ignorantly. Chaucer. They run from my pen unwittingly, if they be verse. B. Jonson, Poetaster, i. 1.

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  • Jesus here reproached the Pharisees for having invented a number of small precepts which might be violated unwittingly, and which only served to multiply infringements of the law Ye fools, and blind! —  The Life of Jesus
  • They put him down on the floor--unwittingly placing him on the round carpet There was a grinding noise--made by débris as the floor turntable began to rotate--that gave them a bad shock. —  072 - The Yellow Cloud
  • Many friends slew each other unwittingly, and among the slain was the indefatigable, energetic Warwick who had hoped to play with his royal puppets. —  Charles the Bold
  • Having perhaps unwittingly, and in vastly different style, continued his predecessor Ziggy Switkowski's strategy of buying Telstra time to create new products and services to supplement and replace fixed line offers, CEO Sol Trujillo has admitted defeat in his Government campaign and will return home at June's end. —  Whirlpool.net.au
  • Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday conceded that the decision of some Congress allies to form a separate front could affect the electoral outcome and said the Left parties and the Third Front were "unwittingly" - + helping the BJP.
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  1. from Middle English unwittyngly, unwetandli; from unwitting + -ly.
 

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