unknownly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Alternative form of unknowingly, without knowledge; without intent.
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."
Etymology
From unknown + -ly.