Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unawares; by surprise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Unawares; unexpectedly; -- sometimes preceded by
at .
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- adverb archaic
Unexpectedly ,suddenly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I fortuned unwares to come into the market place, whereas I espied a certaine woman, accompanied with a great many servants, towards whom I drew nigh, and viewed her garments beset with gold and pretious stone, in such sort that she seemed to be some noble matron.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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But evill fortune would not suffer me to continue in so good estate long: For the shepheards looking about for a Cow that they had lost (after they had sought in divers places) fortuned to come upon us unwares, who when they espied and knew me, they would have taken me by the halter, but he that rode upon my backe resisted them saying, O Lord masters, what intend you to do?
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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For fear the cruel fiendes should thee unwares devour!
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851
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For fear the cruel fiends should thee unwares devour.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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For fear the cruel fiends should thee unwares devour.
The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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Kimi Raikkönen had an unwares drive to the 3rd position.
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Kimi Raikkönen had an unwares drive to the 3rd position.
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Kimi Raikkönen had an unwares drive to the 3rd position.
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Like vassalage at unwares encountring the eye of maiesty.
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But more particularlye I thinke, in the person of Thomalin is meant some secrete freend, who scorned Loue and his knights so long, till at length him selfe was entangled, and unwares wounded with the dart of some beautifull regard, which is Cupides arrowe.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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