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- adjective Obs. or Scot. Unknown; strange.
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- adjective
unknown ;strange
Etymologies
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Examples
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And if any might escape them, and win through the gates and up into the mountains, I wot not if suchlike devils and things unkent be there in the mountain-land, but of a sooth there be fierce and wild men, like enough to devils, who know no peace, and slay whatsoever cometh unto them, but if they themselves be slain of them.
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And her voice sounded strange and unkent to her in that solitude, and she rued it that she had spoken.
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A man must serve a very strict and long probation to be adopted into a Fife fishing community, and it was considered "very upsetting" for an unkent man to be looking up to the like of Christina
A Knight of the Nets Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875
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And if any might escape them, and win through the gates and up into the mountains, I wot not if suchlike devils and things unkent be there in the mountain-land, but of a sooth there be fierce and wild men, like enough to devils, who know no peace, and slay whatsoever cometh unto them, but if they themselves be slain of them.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865
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And her voice sounded strange and unkent to her in that solitude, and she rued it that she had spoken.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865
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