What does unknownly mean?
Unknownly means (dated, rare) Mysteriously, without a known reason or cause..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
(dated, rare) Mysteriously, without a known reason or cause..
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.
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Unknownly means (dated, rare) Mysteriously, without a known reason or cause..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Just then it open’d; and th’enclosed Grain / Unknownly vanisht; and then clos’d again
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