Unknownly

Quick meaning: Unknownly is an adverb meaning (uncommon) Alternative form of unknowingly, without knowledge; without intent.

Meaning

(uncommon) Alternative form of unknowingly, without knowledge; without intent.

More Meanings

1. (dated, rare) Mysteriously, without a known reason or cause.
2. (rare) Obscurely, without being known or noticed.

Example Sentences

Just then it open’d; and th’enclosed Grain / Unknownly vanisht; and then clos’d again

Attentively the grey horse wended / (by many a mighty fist forfended) / through men that lay unknownly dying, / and trod on shallow blackened grass.

if any thing of that nature be brought in, and desired to be lodged with the Society [...] they should be obliged to shew it first to the President (for fear of lodging unknownly ballads and buffooneries in these scoffing times), and that then it should be sealed up

In 1826 it was discovered that the log church and the dwellings on the north side of the creek had unknownly been built on lands set aside by an act of Congress for school purposes, the subsequent rent or sale of which would largely make up the school fund for the Territory.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unexplainedly, notelessly, causelessly, acausally, namelessly, sourcelessly.

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