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unknowing

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1. unknowing - Noun

2. unknowing - Adjective

3. unknowing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge

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He trudg'd along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. John Dryden

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. Aldo Leopold

And who (in time) knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours? Samuel Daniel

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity. Brandon Sanderson

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Maya Angelou

Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe. Alexander Pope

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